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Hi I would like to know if it is possible to force english as language for google maps. I have a small application that uses google maps but if I try to use it from a greek browser all the characters are in greece (and the same happen if a friend of mine use it from Egypt the chars are arabic). Is there any code I can use to solve the problem? Thank you
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Google Maps on the web: Click the menu in the top left, then click Language and select any language to set it. Google Maps app for Android: Tap your profile picture in the top right, tap Settings > Navigation settings > Voice selection > a language. To also adjust the text language go to Settings > App language.
Google Maps automatically shows place names in a country's local languages, but on your computer, you can change your map language. On your computer, open Google Maps. Choose Language. Select a language.
A language can be selected when you load the API by appending language=XX to the API URL where XX is the two-character language code ( en for English, ar for Arabic, etc.) to the URL in the API call. See http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/basics.html#Localization for documentation.
You can add certain GET parameters when loading the map, eg language=en®ion=US. Complete example:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=YOUR_API_KEY&language=en®ion=US
For the available options check the API Docs localisation settings.
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