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Finally I have abandoned Google Gaelic Maps

  • 09-02-2014 08:51PM
    #1
    Piliger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,741 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #2
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


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


  • #3
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Luck maith


  • #4
    username123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,484 ✭✭✭username123


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


  • #5
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • #6
    orangesoda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,223 ✭✭✭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


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  • #7
    Piliger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,741 ✭✭✭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.


  • #8
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


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


  • #9
    Piliger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,741 ✭✭✭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.


  • #10
    Piliger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,741 ✭✭✭Piliger


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    Dya want fries with that!
    lol That was a good advert!

    For what ? a working and better community generated alternative ?


  • #11
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭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?


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  • #12
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


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



    The Ironing!!!


  • #13
    Piliger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,741 ✭✭✭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 ?


  • #14
    emo72
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,413 ✭✭✭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.


  • #15
    Piliger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,741 ✭✭✭Piliger


    Emma Whispering Taskmaster wrote: »
    Any examples?

    Yes. Go and explore Dublin.


  • #16
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


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


  • #17
    Bigcheeze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭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.


  • #18
    Yellowblackbird
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 603 ✭✭✭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.


  • #19
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,559 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    Piliger wrote: »
    Yes. Go and explore Dublin.

    All English for me.


  • #20
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Piliger wrote: »
    Yes. Go and explore Dublin.

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


  • #21
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,232 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    NiallSparky wrote: »
    All English for me.

    All English for me too

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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  • #22
    Mark200
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭Mark200


    Piliger wrote: »
    Yes. Go and explore Dublin.

    Helpful :confused:


  • #23
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    http://imgur.com/Ns2ZO4r

    What is the problem?


  • #24
    TheBody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,645 ✭✭✭TheBody


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


  • #25
    Piliger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,741 ✭✭✭Piliger


    MadsL wrote: »
    Hey, all the street names around me are in Spanish!! At least you had Irish in school :D
    You mean in the country where they actually speak Spanish ? :rolleyes:


  • #26
    ctrl-alt-delete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,261 ✭✭✭✭ctrl-alt-delete


    Where do i report a bug in that OpenStreetMap one?

    Dún Laoghaire still has a fada on it.


  • #27
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭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...


  • #28
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,232 ✭✭✭✭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.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #29
    Carlos Orange
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,499 ✭✭✭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.


  • #30
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • #31
    Piliger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,741 ✭✭✭Piliger


    MadsL wrote: »
    http://imgur.com/Ns2ZO4r

    What is the problem?



    One screenshot


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