Re: OT: languages in Google Maps

2014-08-12 Thread Diego Iastrubni
OSM is a great promise. But not usable in a real world. 1) The servers are slow. Loading maps takes for ever. 2) Using tilemaps is nice, but this maps that rotating the map will not fix the text location according to the orientation of your map. 3) They are very ugly. To the original answer:

Re: OT: languages in Google Maps

2014-08-12 Thread Mord Behar
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Diego Iastrubni elc...@kde.org wrote: OSM is a great promise. But not usable in a real world. 1) The servers are slow. Loading maps takes for ever. 2) Using tilemaps is nice, but this maps that rotating the map will not fix the text location according to

Re: OT: languages in Google Maps

2014-08-12 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
If this is for Israel I don't know if they fixed it yet but in the past I noticed often that embedded maps had nothing inside the borders of Israel (which may have been a copyright issue). Also don't forget the users' browser will send the users' language preference in the GET request for the

OT: languages in Google Maps

2014-08-11 Thread Mord Behar
I'm trying to embed a Google Map on a website, and since most of the target audience is non-English readers, I want the map to be in Hebrew. So I set my Google settings to be Hebrew, and got an embed code from Google. Now Google pointed out to me that each visitor will view a map appropriate for

Re: OT: languages in Google Maps

2014-08-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 04:33:12PM +0300, Mord Behar wrote: I'm trying to embed a Google Map on a website, and since most of the target audience is non-English readers, I want the map to be in Hebrew. So I set my Google settings to be Hebrew, and got an embed code from Google. Now Google