PSA – Nokia updating HERE offline map data for Windows Phone

Update 4:15 PM ET: Users in comments are reporting updates globally, and then brand certain to bank check yours

Late Friday afternoon here and nosotros can pass along that Nokia has updated some offline map data for their HERE services. No, that's not an app update but rather the map data that yous hopefully have downloaded for offline usage.

Nosotros were tipped by reader Corey Southward. and the Windows Phone Central staff were able to confirm updates for at to the lowest degree Florida, Alabama, California, Connecticut, New York and Massachusetts. In other words, it looks similar a lot of the U.s. has received some grade of a minor update.

And nosotros apply the give-and-take "pocket-size" here on purpose as this is not updating all of your maps but seemingly just parts of them, hence the relatively small-scale file sizes (our three states were 52 MB).

So how to become most getting the updates? It will depend if you are using HERE Maps from Nokia or the native Windows Phone 8 Maps. We'll requite instructions below for both.

Maps (HTC, Samsung, Huawei)

Tap^… at the lesser of the Microsoft Maps app
Settings
Check for Updates
Install

HERE Maps (Lumias, anyone who uses Hither)

Tap^… at the bottom of the HERE Maps app
Download maps
Update current maps
Install

Are you lot exterior the Usa and have an update? Let us know and nosotros'll change the headline!

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