How To Convert Nokia Ovi Maps To View On Google Maps or Earth



This post is inspired by a difficulty I had when trying to share an event location on Google Maps from my Nokia E5.00 Smartphone. The client sent me their location via Whatsapp (Share Location feature). The Nokia by default opens maps shared on Whatsapp with Ovi Maps. The landmarks and platform limitations of Ovi Maps resulted in the need to mark and share the location on Google Maps to enable PCs and android devices access it.

A search online (my first line of action) did not offer much of a solution. However, I figured a way out as detailed below;

I opened the shared/ desired location in Nokia Ovi Maps and went to the menu options
There's an option to send the map file to another device in the options. I proceeded to send the mapped location file via bluetooth to my PC.
On the PC the file format from the Nokia Map is LMX (the file extension '.lmx')

To view in Google Maps

There are two options to view the file in Google Maps

Option 1


  • Open the LMX file in a text editor like notepad. It should display the following;


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<lm:lmx xmlns:lm="http://www.nokia.com/schemas/location/landmarks/1/0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.nokia.com/schemas/location/landmarks/1/0 lmx.xsd">
<lm:landmarkCollection>
<lm:landmark>
<lm:name>Sample Map</lm:name>
<lm:coordinates>
<lm:latitude>5.5432714</lm:latitude>
<lm:longitude>-0.4917132</lm:longitude>
</lm:coordinates>
<lm:addressInfo>
<lm:city>Ghana</lm:city>
</lm:addressInfo>
</lm:landmark>
</lm:landmarkCollection>
</lm:lmx>


  • Open Google Maps website
  • Copy the latitude and longitude and paste in the Google Maps separated with a comma (5.5432714,-0.4917132) and hit search.
  • Hit 'search'


Option 2


  • Google Earth and Google Map can read and interprete KML (Keyhole Markup Language)  
  • Use an LMX to KML converter to convert the lmx file to kml (online ones found here and here)
  • You may then open this file with Google Earth if you have it installed
  • Otherwise to open your KML file in google maps you will have to upload the file to a location online where it can be publicly accessed or linked to (e.g. Google Drive + public access to the file)
  • paste the link to your hosted KML file in the Google Maps search box
  • Hit 'search'




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