Nokia has launched a new project named Nokia Prime Place. It is aimed at small business which can add their information to Nokia Maps easily for free.

The company said:

Prime Place enables business owners to add their business listing free of charge to Nokia Maps on web and mobile, share opening hours, website and contact details, and add lots of images to show what their business or service is all about, and why you can’t miss to visit! This provides Nokia customers with lots of unique businesses that can be discovered, wherever you are, and helps you to be a local anywhere.

Businesses gets various features as part of joining this program:

Account Management
Facebook publishing
Secure place verification
Bing AdCenter

This platform is similar to what Google, Facebook, Foursquare and other companies already offer.