* Is it possible to change the display of OpenSourceMaps?

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Is it possible to change the display of OpenSourceMaps?

Post by paultt » 21 Dec 2014 16:59

Open Source Maps appear to be displaying the maps in the written language of that country, ie Russian in Russia, Mandarin in China, Hebrew in Israel, Greek in Greece, etc.
Is there an option to have the display in a 'home' language, for all countries, ie all place names on the map in the recognized English equivalent?

If not, how do we visually verify that the geocoding is correct for a place in one of those 'foreign' countries when we do not read that country's language?

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Re: Is it possible to change the display of OpenSourceMaps?

Post by tatewise » 21 Dec 2014 17:15

The best I can suggest at the moment is to use Map > Map Type > View in Google/Bing which use English but the markers are not shown.

Does anyone else have any good ideas?
Mike Tate ~ researching the Tate and Scott family history ~ tatewise ancestry

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