On Nov 17, 12:03 pm, marcelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's the point of prepending "Former Yugoslav Republic" to the name > of Macedonia?
It was done because Greece lays claim to the name "Macedonia" as part of Greece, so the UN accepted the need to distinguish between the present sovereign Republic of Macedonia and anything else which could be called Macedonia. It's normally written "FYR Macedonia", but "Republic of Macedonia" (or maybe "Rep Macedonia") would seem to fit the bill just as well. To answer the OP, The name is part of the tiles, so you can't change the tiles for your website. You could use something like Mike's ELabels http://econym.org.uk/gmap/elabel.htm to put your own label over the name on the map, but you would almost certainly need one per zoom level as the map name moves. And you would definitely need to revisit their placement when the map tiles are revised. Diddlefinger does something similar with English labels on Japanese maps. Andrew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
