A beach side business in Crete has their Apple Maps entry in japanese
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Found while browsing at random
wrote last edited by [email protected]Apple Maps gets their data from openstreetmap, where anyone can insert a "place" if there's not.one there already.
I think some Japanese person just put up an entry and Apple Maps scooped it up as-is.
The hotel I work for (also in Crete) was listed in the wrong address in Apple Maps and I had to make an openstreetmap account to edit it. It's showing correctly now.
Edit: I went to the place on Apple Maps and it's plain old English in mine, either they corrected it or it's a regional thing. It's not like this on openstreetmap either
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Found while browsing at random
If anyone is curious, it's "Romantic Beach Villas".
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If anyone is curious, it's "Romantic Beach Villas".
I really had to look up what a u with dakuten means because I'd never seen it before.
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If anyone is curious, it's "Romantic Beach Villas".
The Japanese actually says Romantica Beach Villas.
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Found while browsing at random
wrote last edited by [email protected]Looks like at least 4 languages in that screenshot? Maybe 5?
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Apple Maps gets their data from openstreetmap, where anyone can insert a "place" if there's not.one there already.
I think some Japanese person just put up an entry and Apple Maps scooped it up as-is.
The hotel I work for (also in Crete) was listed in the wrong address in Apple Maps and I had to make an openstreetmap account to edit it. It's showing correctly now.
Edit: I went to the place on Apple Maps and it's plain old English in mine, either they corrected it or it's a regional thing. It's not like this on openstreetmap either
Yeah, somebody didn't like a neighbour near us. Their garage had like 10 entries:
Sausage Butcher
Laundromat
Loans
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Apple Maps gets their data from openstreetmap, where anyone can insert a "place" if there's not.one there already.
I think some Japanese person just put up an entry and Apple Maps scooped it up as-is.
The hotel I work for (also in Crete) was listed in the wrong address in Apple Maps and I had to make an openstreetmap account to edit it. It's showing correctly now.
Edit: I went to the place on Apple Maps and it's plain old English in mine, either they corrected it or it's a regional thing. It's not like this on openstreetmap either
Doesn’t open street map call it the Gulf of Mexico?
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Doesn’t open street map call it the Gulf of Mexico?
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico#Name
Basically they list all, with gulf of mexico as the default for the en locale and an entry for official name in en-US
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https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico#Name
Basically they list all, with gulf of mexico as the default for the en locale and an entry for official name in en-US
So Apple is specifically choosing the government tag then.
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So Apple is specifically choosing the government tag then.
Yes. Without knowing their infrastructure, they obviously cache and probably process the raw OSM data locally. If they chose to use their own overrides or the official-tag is impossible to tell.