Finally I have abandoned Google Gaelic Maps

Piliger

Now that I have found a real alternative, http://www.openstreetmap.org/, I have finally abandoned Google Maps totally because I am thoroughly sick to death of the way it's been taken over by the Irish language nationalists.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/ is way way better, I find, with a lot more local information. Tragic that google will not given us access to an English language version of google maps. English, our language, the one 90% of us speak, and the one our parents and their parents and their parents speak.

ScumLord

I have no idea what your on about, my google maps is in English as are all the town names.

Big Nasty

Luck maith

username123

I agree OP, very annoying. Cheers for the alternative.

MadsL

Piliger wrote: »

Now that I have found a real alternative, http://www.openstreetmap.org/, I have finally abandoned Google Maps totally because I am thoroughly sick to death of the way it's been taken over by the Irish language nationalists.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/ is way way better, I find, with a lot more local information. Tragic that google will not given us access to an English language version of google maps. English, our language, the one 90% of us speak, and the one our parents and their parents and their parents speak.

Set your location to Ireland , language to English.

https://www.google.com/preferences

Problem?

orangesoda

If you had have added another 'parents' to that you would have looked like a fool (or a bigger fool) as i'm sure our great-great grandparents had a good bit of the auld gaelic

Piliger

MadsL wrote: »

Set your location to Ireland , language to English.

https://www.google.com/preferences

Problem?

Doesn't work. They still deliver the Irish street names.

TeddyTedson

Dya want fries with that!
lol That was a good advert!

Piliger

ScumLord wrote: »

I have no idea what your on about, my google maps is in English as are all the town names.

I have no idea what you're talking about ... Google Maps in Ireland has been changing over street names to Irish for a while now.

Piliger

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Dya want fries with that!
lol That was a good advert!

For what ? a working and better community generated alternative ?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Piliger wrote: »

I have no idea what you're talking about ... Google Maps in Ireland has been changing over street names to Irish for a while now.

Any examples?

MadsL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXftAytPuk4

The Ironing!!!

Piliger

squirrelohara wrote: »

Slightly off topic but does anyone know how to change google back to English?

Even when I go to .com it comes up Irish. It wont automatically suggest anything then. Slightly annoying.

Maps or search ?

emo72

i noticed googlemaps giving street names in irish, it caused a bit of a problem because i only knew the name of the street in english. i will have to check my settings, but i never altered them in the first place.

Piliger

Emma Whispering Taskmaster wrote: »

Any examples?

Yes. Go and explore Dublin.

MadsL

Hey, all the street names around me are in Spanish!! At least you had Irish in school

Bigcheeze

ScumLord wrote: »

I have no idea what your on about, my google maps is in English as are all the town names.

How did you set that? The default is Irish names. Most streets have never been known by these names at any time in history.

Yellowblackbird

ScumLord wrote: »

I have no idea what your on about, my google maps is in English as are all the town names.

If you actually used google maps you would be aware of this annoying bug.
I can understand their initial mistake but not why they never bothered to fix it.

Amirani

Piliger wrote: »

Yes. Go and explore Dublin.

All English for me.

keith16

Piliger wrote: »

Yes. Go and explore Dublin.

I've seen 5 junkies and was stopped by 16 chuggers. All English tho.

Annasopra

NiallSparky wrote: »

All English for me.

All English for me too

Mark200

Piliger wrote: »

Yes. Go and explore Dublin.

Helpful

MadsL

http://imgur.com/Ns2ZO4r

What is the problem?

TheBody

All the streets are named in both English and Irish for me.

Piliger

MadsL wrote: »

Hey, all the street names around me are in Spanish!! At least you had Irish in school

You mean in the country where they actually speak Spanish ? :rolleyes:

ctrl-alt-delete

Where do i report a bug in that OpenStreetMap one?

Dún Laoghaire still has a fada on it.

MadsL

Yellowblackbird wrote: »

If you actually used google maps you would be aware of this annoying bug.
I can understand their initial mistake but not why they never bothered to fix it.

Example??

I use google maps all the time...

Annasopra

Yellowblackbird wrote: »

If you actually used google maps you would be aware of this annoying bug.
I can understand their initial mistake but not why they never bothered to fix it.

I do use google maps. I don't know what you are talking about.

Carlos Orange

Yellowblackbird wrote: »

If you actually used google maps you would be aware of this annoying bug.
I can understand their initial mistake but not why they never bothered to fix it.

It isn't a bug it is a political decision.

MadsL

Piliger wrote: »

You mean in the country where they actually speak Spanish ? :rolleyes:

What is the 'official' language where I live and where you live?

Mine is not English. Nor Spanish.

However there is legal status http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexican_Spanish#Legal_status

Reminds me a lot of Ireland as a bilingual state.

As to your question my daughter speaks Irish everyday.

Piliger

MadsL wrote: »

http://imgur.com/Ns2ZO4r

What is the problem?

One screenshot

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Piliger wrote: »

Yes. Go and explore Dublin.

No. I don't want maps of Dublin.

MadsL

Is it Bóthar-ing you?

keith16

Bóthar Haddington. Baffling.

Amirani

None for me.

Piliger

NiallSparky wrote: »

None for me.

Mine ..

What are your language and location settings ?

Amirani

Piliger wrote: »

Mine ..

Strange.

Artful_Badger

Shows Irish and English for me.

Peregrine

My language is set to English but some street names still have just Irish or both on them. They were completely Irish at one point and I sent a few complaints about it. It's not as annoying now but it's still baffling why they're forcing this on me.

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twistyj

Set your location to England.

Good stay there.

biko

Location: Dublin/London

Irish street names must be killing you, old chap. Tally-ho.

Carlos Orange

biko wrote: »

Irish street names must be killing you, old chap. Tally-ho.

Having maps populated with place names in a language I never use makes the maps less useful.

I'm glad it makes your day.

Piliger

psinno wrote: »

Having maps populated with place names in a language I never use makes the maps less useful.

I'm glad it makes your day.

Poor chap, probably just in the door from the shinners party meeting.

biko

As a tip, Irish people don't refer to their own language as "gaelic".

Artful_Badger

biko wrote: »

As a tip, Irish people don't refer to their own language as "gaelic".

Was a leaflet sent out or something ?

Days 298

biko wrote: »

As a tip, Irish people don't refer to their own language as "gaelic".

Yah they call it English.

OP click on "get the new version" link on the left side of the page. Irish names gone :cool: Tir gan teanga tir gan something.

http://imgur.com/KmnAlK4

Piliger

Days 298 wrote: »

Yah they call it English.

No ... we call it that boring pissant old dead language we want to kill off and let the retro nationalists study in their spare time.

Piliger

Whatever the outcome may be, trying to get rid of the oirish ... I think there is no doubt that the OpenStreetMap is way way better for local information.

Annasopra

Google maps works well for me in English.

Bipolar Joe

It is in both languages. How about instead of fighting over whether it should be one or the other, you just accept that some people still speak the language.

cherryghost

Piliger wrote: »

Yes. Go and explore Dublin.

All English to me.