when you set the map language in english, the city are not translated, but named in the english name, for example Livorno (Italy) become Leghorn, which is not the litteral translation but the historical english name of the city
it's really interesting how google maps manage the language for the locations, expecially the search of locations take in consideration all the languages, for example: Holland, Netherlands and Olanda point to the same state! or again if you search Lucania, which is the old name of Basilicata, google will pops out Basilicata here some intersting links: http://www.google.com/support/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=7091 http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/10-likely-elements-of-googles-local-search-algorithm/519/ Is interesting to understand how google maps search algorithm works, expecially if you work in Seo, if you have more informations or interesting article please share! 2010/8/6 Miguel Angel Vilela <[email protected]> > > Names on tiles (cities, counties, states, etc.) won't change all over the > world, most of the times you'll have only local names plus their > transliterations to English. Therefore, you won't see names in German for > cities in France, or names in Spanish for cities in Italy, etc. > > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 13:44, s <[email protected]> wrote: > >> i have used the same, but in map the names of the states,cities are >> not changing...only the map Types and copyright messages etc. are >> changing...that is the main problem im facing... >> >> thanks >> >> On Aug 5, 8:26 am, Federico Ulfo <[email protected]> wrote: >> > with the language attribute: >> > >> > <script type="text/javascript" >> > src="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false&language=it >> > <view-source:http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false&lang=it >> >"></script> >> > >> > here the supported language: >> http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p9pdwsai2hDMsLkXsoM05KQ&gid=1 >> > >> > cheers >> > >> > 2010/8/5 s <[email protected]> >> > >> > >> > >> > > how can i change the language in Google Maps javascript API V3? the >> > > language displaying in the Map?can anyone on help me out on this >> > >> > > Thanks >> > >> > > -- >> > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> > > "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. >> > > To post to this group, send email to >> > > [email protected]. >> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > > [email protected]<google-maps-js-api-v3%[email protected]> >> <google-maps-js-api-v3%2b[email protected]> >> > > . >> > > For more options, visit this group at >> > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.- Hide >> quoted text - >> > >> > - Show quoted text - >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<google-maps-js-api-v3%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-maps-js-api-v3%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" 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-js-api-v3?hl=en.
