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Finally I have abandoned Google Gaelic Maps

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  • #32
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Piliger wrote: »
    Yes. Go and explore Dublin.

    No. I don't want maps of Dublin.


  • #33
    MadsL
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    Is it Bóthar-ing you?


  • #34
    keith16
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    Bóthar Haddington. Baffling.


  • #35
    Amirani
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    None for me.


  • #36
    Piliger
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    NiallSparky wrote: »
    None for me.

    Mine ..

    What are your language and location settings ?


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  • #37
    Amirani
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    Piliger wrote: »
    Mine ..

    Strange. :confused:


  • #38
    Artful_Badger
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    Shows Irish and English for me.


  • #39
    Peregrine
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    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.

    Screenshot 1
    Screenshot 2
    Screenshot 3


  • #40
    twistyj
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    Set your location to England.

    Good stay there.


  • #41
    biko
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    Location: Dublin/London
    Irish street names must be killing you, old chap. Tally-ho.


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  • #42
    Carlos Orange
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    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.


  • #43
    Piliger
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    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.


  • #44
    biko
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    As a tip, Irish people don't refer to their own language as "gaelic".


  • #45
    Artful_Badger
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    biko wrote: »
    As a tip, Irish people don't refer to their own language as "gaelic".

    Was a leaflet sent out or something ?


  • #46
    Days 298
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    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


  • #47
    Piliger
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    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.


  • #48
    Piliger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,741 ✭✭✭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.


  • #49
    Annasopra
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    Google maps works well for me in English.

    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



  • #50
    Bipolar Joe
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    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.


  • #51
    cherryghost
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    Piliger wrote: »
    Yes. Go and explore Dublin.

    All English to me.


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  • #52
    Teyla Emmagan
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    What a bizarre thing to be getting worked up about.


  • #53
    Aphex
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    Piliger wrote: »
    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.

    That's extremely ignorant dude..


  • #54
    LordSutch
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    English is our main language, not Irish, not by a long shot . . .

    Nearly all Irish people speak English, & some choose to speak Irish.


  • #55
    Carlos Orange
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    Bipolar Joe wrote: »
    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.

    Computers are great things. They could display the information in whatever language the user prefered. I'm probably blowing your mind here but technology really is just that great.


  • #56
    MadsL
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    I find it hysterical that after Irish placenames were comprehensively renamed on maps made by the Irish Survey of 1824-1846 by British Army Sappers, people are now bitching about Google changing them back.

    Too funny.


  • #57
    Tin Foil Hat
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    MadsL wrote: »
    I find it hysterical that after Irish placenames were comprehensively renamed on maps made by the Irish Survey of 1824-1846 by British Army Sappers, people are now bitching about Google changing them back.

    Too funny.

    You know that they are not the same people, right? Most people who were around in the first half of the 19th century are dead.


  • #58
    Bigcheeze
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    MadsL wrote: »
    I find it hysterical that after Irish placenames were comprehensively renamed on maps made by the Irish Survey of 1824-1846 by British Army Sappers, people are now bitching about Google changing them back.

    Too funny.

    So you think dublin suburb madey-up street names, mostly built since the 1960's should revert to names that never existed?


  • #59
    Carlos Orange
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    MadsL wrote: »
    I find it hysterical that after Irish placenames were comprehensively renamed on maps made by the Irish Survey of 1824-1846 by British Army Sappers, people are now bitching about Google changing them back.

    Too funny.

    Some people live in the present.


  • #60
    MadsL
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    Bigcheeze wrote: »
    So you think dublin suburb madey-up street names, mostly built since the 1960's should revert to names that never existed?

    I don't know. Do you think that a free service should invest time and money into making sure their machine-translation machine is turned on and off for the exceptions that annoy you?


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  • #61
    MadsL
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    psinno wrote: »
    Some people live in the present.

    Until you mention the famine...


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