A beach side business in Crete has their Apple Maps entry in japanese
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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 Etc
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
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.
Thanks for the tutorial. I’ve only ever done a few edits to OSM. Didn’t know the finer details.
An easy way to contribute is via a phone app called StreetComplete. It asks you questions about stuff near you when you are out. For example, names of places, if the crossing is handicap friendly, road surfaces, etc etc
Edit: I wrote another post about it a while back, https://lemmy.world/comment/18685150
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.
Same, apparently it's Vu
The Japanese actually says Romantica Beach Villas.
Looks like at least 4 languages in that screenshot? Maybe 5?
I counted 4
English Japanese Greek German
There is actually no english in that screenshot. The map labels like „Restaurant“ are all in german, as are the UI elements.
Even Ivy league? I mean, I thought league in German was liga, but I'm taking that from bundesliga
I never knew this could happen!