Soon you’ll be able to save and share content between Nokia Maps on your mobile device and Ovi online. Check out the early buzz about Maps on Ovi.

Nokia announced the upcoming release at this year’s Where 2.0 Conference, where the grassroots and leading-edge developers who build location-aware technology intersect with the businesses and entrepreneurs seeking out location apps, platforms and hardware. Michael Halbherr - from Nokia’s Location Based Services group - announced that Maps and Navigation will be an important part of Ovi Internet services offering. Maps on Ovi will allow you to save map locations and routes and then synchronize them with your phone.

How will this come in handy? Some quotes from the press release:

Web-to-device benefits: “Before traveling to another city, a user could pick out places to visit and the routes to those sites from his hotel. Once saved on Ovi, that information would be copied onto his phone automatically at the next synchronization.”

Device-to-web benefits: “The user could walk or drive around the city and save his route on the phone, then upload that to his Ovi map. Sights along the way that he marked as interesting could be uploaded to the Web map, which eventually could provide a wealth of information about those places from a variety of sources.”

Maps on Ovi will also allow its users to share their tips and routes with friends. For example, “a company could put together a set of suggestions for employees visiting its headquarters city.”

When will it become available? The plan is to release it in September, either as a beta or as a full release. It will also be hardware independent, which means that you’ll be able to use it with Nokia and non-Nokia devices.

Read the full press release for more about Maps on Ovi and check out the new Nokia Maps.

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