OT: languages in Google Maps

[Mord Behar]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Diego Iastrubni <elcuco at kde.org> wrote:

> OSM is a great promise. But not usable in a real world.
>
> 1) The servers are slow. Loading maps takes for ever.
> 2) Using tilemaps is nice, but this maps that rotating the map will not
> fix the text
> location according to the orientation of your map.
> 3) They are very ugly.
>

Yeah, I have similar reservations about OSM. It's a good initiative, and I
hope it takes off, but it still needs more time and development for it to
be as useable as other options.


>
> To the original answer:
> append this to the URL
>
> ?hl=es
> ?hl=iw
>

Um... neither of those seems to have any effect.
http://pastebin.com/hCZB0M4A


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