Regarding "After 9 months, I find the feature is quite stable, and Places with Multiple Language Names are more abundant."
I find many POIs that don't support multiple language names.. some does, some don't .. in same setting on my browser and pc.. and even same categories like say some Restaurants, I just cannot input different language names for some POIs, the second field just don't show up..
@YK1001, never mind.. I figured it out just now.. apparently after I add in the second language, when approved and applied, and if I edit again, only a single field shows up.. double field only shows up if the secondary language name is blank..
I must have got confused because some POIs may already have a second language, but the second field doesn't show up when editing.. it basically means, it's already there..
Thanks again.. for making me investigate and understanding.. 🙂
For me, when a POI already have Names in 3 different language which all of them are different than the language my mobile is using, when I do an edit, 4 fields will be shown.
So it sounds to me something is not right if you only see 1 language fields if that POI already has Names in two different languages.
Thank you for your tutorial, but I think Google is getting it wrong when trying to translate all names of places. Yes, the Eiffel Tower is known as such in English and we do not call it the "Tour Eiffel" unless you speak French. But some names, in particular names of restaurants and businesses, the name is part of a brand. The "Tour de France" does not become "Tour of France" in English.
Now, changing them to another script (e.g. as Chinese letters are not the same as English letters) from one language writing style to another, that all makes sense. But when I am in Spain and a French restaurant is called "Mon Ami" it does NOT make sense to translate this to "Mi Amigo".
Yes, I am under the impression that Google makes some auto-translations. However, when answering Do you know this place? questions (not to confuse with check the facts) I have been asked about a name translation as well. That, to me, makes a lot more sense, before putting silly unhelpful translations on the map.
My concern is, that the question asked is wrong. It asks about the translation, so people might think yes that is what it translates to, HOWEVER the question should be, how do people call this place in English (read: replace English with other languages)? That is not the same as how do you translate the name.
When I come accros this, I flag the question and when I come across a silly name, I edit it back to the name "Mon Ami" as per my above example. I have not noticed that these Name edits of mine are not approved, but I shall look into it again, as they are pending for a long time.
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