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Re:Google Maps Hacks by fit2rule on Sunday February 02, 2020 @02:31PM (#22218827)
My personal pet peeve: using the wrong language for the region. So, I'm a native English speaker - but I'm driving around Germany. Give me the names of the streets in German only - NOPE.

Still can't find any way to fix this issue. Its terribly annoying.

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Re:Google Maps Hacks by JCharante on Sunday February 02, 2020 @05:14PM (#22219820)
What do the English equivalents look like? I do the same in Vietnam but I'd rather hear the proper pronounciation rather than a butchered one.
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Re:Google Maps Hacks by fit2rule on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @05:30AM (#22234109)
When a German street name is synthesised using English settings, its a proper butchering. Just not good at all.

I want the instructions in English - but I want the place-names in the native language. This is the only sensible way, yet none of the Maps vendors seem to have understood this. Do they not use their products?

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Re:Google Maps Hacks by iggldiggl on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @05:54AM (#22234236)
Semi-related anecdote: A few years ago, for a while Google Maps insisted on labelling White City (in London) as "White Stadt" and the M25 as "Autoroute brittanique M25" (and not just for French users).
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