I just wanted to say this is one of the best threads / things I have seen on this forum. Not only has Ovi maps been the biggest disappointment on the N900 considering it is supported on EVERY OTHER Nokia phone, but for me it won't even work.

I have seen screen shots of colour. (Yes Ovi maps for me is that bad, I have beige and nothing.)
I have seen screen shots of streets. (Yes my ovi maps can't find anything while standing in a city, it reports that I am stood in a field of nothing.)
And I have seen buildings (see note above)

Congrats to OP. I am off to see if I can get half of this to work.

Although I am shocked to hear Nokia does the map lookups on their servers, no wonder when I last used OVI maps it drank half my battery in less than twenty minutes. For those on limited data plans I pity you.