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... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-translate-general/-/NURIUWS6Rm8J. 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-translate-general?hl=en.
