Identification of places

[#1]

Hi,

As per @sonnyNg advice, am addressing one of my concerns as an idea for improvement in Google maps. I have faced a peculiar issue in the last  2-3 days. 

In India, there are hundreds of languages, and google maps supports most of the main languages. My default language is english since am comfortable in the same.  I live in North India where english, hindi & punjabi are the main languages. So i search the place name in english, it doesnt show up on maps & i think the place doesn't exist. So i go on to add a new place.

But the reality is that the same place is duly added in a local language .e.g., hindi or Punjabi. Since some people use local language as the default language. 

Sometimes it may show up when i submit a new place for addition, but other times it doesnt.

My problem is, i cant search for the same place using different languages. And i have to know the exact spelling in the local language to be able to find the place. 

In Southern India, the language could literally  change every 200 kms!! telugu, malayalam, kannada, bengali etc.

Just imagine if i am travelling in south india,or even abroad where the local language is not english,  it wont be possible for me to do anything in this regard. 

Any option to display such places to avoid duplicacy?? Since its not possible for me to search a place in different languages everytime! I also dont know how to type in hindi or punjabi language.

Any suggestions on this??

Thanks,

 CS G

[C_T]

Multiple marking of the same POI at one single location does exist.

However, to date, I have not seen two POI markings at the same place, one in local language and another in English.

Can you please cite a specific example sharing a snapshot of the map illustrating that the name of POI is only in local language & there does not exist a name for that in English?

[goelmyself]

OK @C_T ,

i will try to find out a snapshot. Else whenever i face this issue again i will definitely.

thanks

[Petra_M]

Hi @goelmyself,

We would like to thank you for your idea, but we did not manage to implement it in time. According to our Idea Exchange policies we are going to close your idea.