OK, I promise, last thing :)

Now, yes, Gmaps does already have an "english" layer. Not immediately 
obvious to the new user, but it's there. However, it does seem rather 
incomplete in places, and it's difficult if not impossible to 
copy-and-paste points of interest into Gtranslate itself - as well as 
search for them in English. And of course, if it's in a non-roman script, 
it's quite likely you don't have a suitable IME or the knowledge of how to 
use it.

(I presume this also goes for other languages?)

Is there any way of having a "best guess translation" button or something 
similar on the drop down list of layers, below "actual english" or whatever 
it should be called afterwards? So even if there's no official / 
professional translation yet been done, the foreign labels can be fed into 
the translation engine and spit out the other side in readable form, and 
applied onto the map?

For an illustration of the potential difficulties faced right now, just 
take a look up the mid-east coast of Japan, with and without the "English" 
layer turned on. In the latter case it can still be hard to find certain 
places. I couldn't find, for example, either Tokyo or Fukushima exactly 
until I zoomed way out, when their english labels mysteriously appeared in 
place of the japanese ones (but still flanked by plentiful kanji for other 
less important points, but ones I might still have been looking for)... 
despite having actually scrolled over each a couple times.

(alright, slight exaggeration of my own geographical fecklessness for 
effect, but I certainly couldn't be *sure* until I did that!)

And again, this may well be a problem in reverse for users who speak other 
languages or even are have non-latin scripts as their "first" writing 
system...

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