What I don't get is why Nokia make it so complicated in the first place.

Why don't they just have an option in Ovi Maps itself to just "pre-cache region" and show a list of areas you can download - right there on your phone. Even smartphones should do that, bearing in mind they are telling us the N900 is more a computer than a phone, why should we need to use ANOTHER computer to do it? (although the unofficial method we could do directly on the N900 I suppose)