Here in Israel, a lot of places are named in Hebrew. Sometimes I can add an English name as well, and sometimes the field isn’t available.
I thought the name had to appear only in Hebrew first in order to ‘unlock’ the English name field, but you can see in this example below that it doesn’t seem to be the case… I would appreciate any help on this.
Thank you
This is a brilliant question, @TalBenisty . And one that the team needs to take an extra look at if you ask me.
I live in Denmark where we speak Danish. I have set my Android to English. When I then start Suggesting an edit I will normally get two name fields English and Danish. I can then add or edit as needed.
If only the English name exist there will only be one name field visible = the English one. If only the Danish exist I will see the both name fields. But the only way to know which one is which is to delete one of them. Only an empty field will let us know which language is which. This is a big bug if you ask me. Plenty of room for improvements here.
If I then want to add the Danish name (when the Danish name field is missing in the App) I need to go to my desktop where I have bookmarked two versions of Google Maps one for each language. This is far from optimal.
Recently we learned that the app will soon have an easier way to switch between languages in the App. I hope this will eliminate the problems we currently face.
Cheers
Morten
Good to know, thank you Morten!
I didn’t know you could visit/bookmark different versions of Google Maps in different languages**.**
How do you do that?
Thanks again!
On desktop that is quite easy @TalBenisty : there is an option in the main menu of Maps to switch the language. Just click the burger menu icon in the top left and towards the bottom of the list you will see the item ‘Language’.
On mobile devices it is more difficult, as you need to switch the language settings of the entire phone.
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On desktop it is easy to set the language, @TalBenisty It is saved in the url
Here is the link to Maps Danish:
https://www.google.com/maps/@55.6819147,12.5720135,14z?hl=da
English:
https://www.google.com/maps/@55.6846582,12.5895094,16z?hl=en
hl is Language
z is the zoom level.
I hope this helps.
Cheers
Morten
Hello @TalBenisty
From the description of the problem I find you are not getting a field to add English translations consistently.
That’s is because someone has added Hebrew text in a field meant for English.
Here are two screenshots explaining that
The first is for a POI name with Hebrew text.
Caption: Screenshot 1 showing a POI name in Hebrew text
Next, I scored off the entire text and now that shows the field was meant for English text and not Hebrew.
Caption: Screenshots 2. The moment the entire text is scored off, that reveals the field was meant for English text and not Hebrew
To resolve the issue, set default language on your device to Hebrew. Then edit the place.
Now you will see two fields one for Hebrew and second for English.
Transfer the Hebrew text to it’s assigned place holder and then add an English translation.
To speed up the process, you can include all such problematic places in one list and then go on editing each.
Later on, you can revert the default language to English.
Good point, @C_T .
I’m my experience it is not possible to fix it when someone has messed up by mixing the languages. I would love to learn how to fix this.
Cheers
Morten
Happy holidays!
That’s possible @MortenCopenhagen
I am doing that every day.
Here too, some persons have mixed up the place names.
In the field meant for Marathi, I find text in English.
Then, I do not get a place to add Marathi text.
However, I use two handsets. One has English as default & another one Marathi as default.
So when I open the place for editing on a handset with English as default, I see the Marathi placeholder first & another empty placeholder for English. I transfer the English name to its assigned place & then add the Marathi translation.
But, on a desktop, that becomes easier as we can have two tabs set in two different languages.
So you make them kind of simultaneously? I normally do single edits only. That might be the problem. And when the place is claimed is can be very difficult.
I will do some more testing now. Thanks a million.
Cheers
Morten
Hi @TalBenisty ,
I am glad to see you already received helpful answers from our members! 
I also wanted to let you know that I removed the language tag from your post since you wrote in English and the tag should only reflect the language of the post. In the following page you can read more about it: How do I find posts in my preferred language?
