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Title: Google maps in Greek?
Post by: Cat on July 03, 2007, 03:51:10 PM

Hello,

I was trying to look around Crete on Google maps the other day but it was all in Greek. Does anyone know if there is any way of changing all the place names into English?

Thanks,

Cat

Title: Google maps in Greek?
Post by: Graham_and_Karen on July 03, 2007, 05:13:42 PM

Hi Cat,
Use Microsoft maps instead http://maps.live.com/ (http://maps.live.com/)
The names are in English. Mind you, the location of the names is not altogether accurate - Plakias is shown where Mirthios is

Title: Google maps in Greek?
Post by: Graham_and_Karen on July 03, 2007, 05:18:24 PM

Quote from: Graham_and_Karen

Hi Cat,
Use Microsoft maps instead [url]http://maps.live.com/[/url] ([url]http://maps.live.com/[/url])
The names are in English. Mind you, the location of the names is not altogether accurate - Plakias is shown where Mirthios is

The other down side is that the resolution is poorer

Title: Google maps in Greek?
Post by: Ploppy on July 03, 2007, 09:44:32 PM

Quote from: Graham_and_Karen

Quote from: Graham_and_Karen

Hi Cat,
Use Microsoft maps instead [url]http://maps.live.com/[/url] ([url]http://maps.live.com/[/url])
The names are in English. Mind you, the location of the names is not altogether accurate - Plakias is shown where Mirthios is

The other down side is that the resolution is poorer  

Yes its a real shame that the MS one does not have the same resolution as Google Maps.
I have a new PDA with a built-in GPS. There is a mobile MS Maps program that will store the maps so I could go to Plakias and use the GPS to find out exactly where I was. Handy for those long hikes I never really do or if you get lost on the way home from the bar

Title: Google maps in Greek?
Post by: Graham_and_Karen on July 04, 2007, 08:51:29 AM

Quote from: Cat

Hello,

I was trying to look around Crete on Google maps the other day but it was all in Greek. Does anyone know if there is any way of changing all the place names into English?

Thanks,

Cat

To answer your original question - I'm not aware of a way of changing the names to English on Google Maps. Another option is to download Google Earth. Resolution is good but you don't have the option of a road map. Names are in English but when I looked at it briefly, most names only appeared when you clicked on a placemark.

Title: Google maps in Greek?
Post by: Cat on July 04, 2007, 11:22:05 AM

Quote from: Graham_and_Karen

Quote from: Cat

Hello,

I was trying to look around Crete on Google maps the other day but it was all in Greek. Does anyone know if there is any way of changing all the place names into English?

Thanks,

Cat

To answer your original question - I'm not aware of a way of changing the names to English on Google Maps. Another option is to download Google Earth. Resolution is good but you don't have the option of a road map. Names are in English but when I looked at it briefly, most names only appeared when you clicked on a placemark.

Thanks guys, I'll have a look at both of those later on tonight. You'd think that Google could work it so that if you use maps from Google.co.uk the place names could be written in english, likewise if you were to use maps from google.de the maps could be written in German. Ah well.