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[Davide DB]

A quick reply because it's pizza time :)

On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>
>> > That's odd. I tried with German and French and the countries were returned in the UI language. I wonder why they were returned in English for you...
>>
>> I do not know. I tried in Italian and German again and they stay in
>> English. Actually they are a bit messed up. Some name is in Italian,
>> some in English but countries in English.
>
> Can you give a few sample GPS locations where you get some component of
> the reply in English? So an English country name, the rest in Italian? Or
> everything in English?
>
> There are three major providers of these reverse lookup services.
> Google has a very low max usage count per IP address per day unless you
> pay. So for a prolific diver (or someone who tests this a couple of times)
> it would be very easy to run into that limit. Bing has a more reasonable
> limit (I think 30k requests a day) so that would be an alternative.
> Openstreenmap through MapQuest doesn't appear to have a firm limit, that's
> why I picked them, but it's possible that the quality of their data isn't
> as good.

Ouch I see a misunderstanding here sorry!
Actually I was speaking of the current Marble map on Ssrf.
I wasn't using some lookup service.
Places on the Marble map stay always in a mixed language

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Davide
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