Google maps is awesome 90% of the time. But the few times that I’ve needed to look up addresses and places in other countries, I get so annoyed. When you zoom into a city map of another country, the labels are no longer in English. Instead they are in the local language of that country. This makes it impossible for me to use, and understand the map. Google: why woud you choose to do this?
If I’m signed in, and my primary language is English, why then, when I zoom into Greece, I’m confronted with Greek? That’s just silly.
August 4, 2009 at 12:23 pm |
Agreed. It makes trip planning so much harder. But it does have the added benefit of educating you about the local names (sans pronunciation) before you travel.
August 10, 2009 at 10:30 am |
Unless you’re dealing with a non-English writing. That’s where I get really frustrated.