Try http://www.geonames.org/

They have a Chinese translation for Madrid ;)


(this is probably better anyway, as what you want to do sounds to be
against the Google Maps API terms of use anyway. )


On 15/09/2009, inakivb <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  Hi
>
>  I'm working in an international expansion for my company and we need
>  to translate our city database (200.000+ cities) into diferent
>  languages.
>
>  I've used the google API for english, german, portuguese, italian and
>  japanese without any problems.
>
>  http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/geo?q=Madrid,%20madrid,%20Spain&output=xml
>  http://maps.google.co.jp/maps/geo?q=Madrid,%20madrid,%20Spain&output=xml
>  http://maps.google.es/maps/geo?q=Madrid,%20madrid,%20Spain&output=xml
>  http://maps.google.de/maps/geo?q=Madrid,%20madrid,%20Spain&output=xml
>  http://maps.google.it/maps/geo?q=Madrid,%20madrid,%20Spain&output=xml
>  http://maps.google.pt/maps/geo?q=Madrid,%20madrid,%20Spain&output=xml
>
>  But the problem has came when i try to use it to translate into
>  chinese
>  http://maps.google.cn/maps/geo?q=Madrid,%20madrid,%20Spain&output=xml
>
>  The google maps geo API doesn't translate it at all.
>  I'm quite sure that cities in chinese are translated like in japanese,
>  making it sound similar.
>
>  Has anybody have the same problem? Any solutions?
>
>  Thanks!!
>
>  >
>


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