Irish place names

Onriver1

Hi my latest UK and Ireland map download only has place names in Irish. Is it possible to get English as well?

lampard

Hi there @Onriver1

Welcome to the Community! Is this a GO navigation app or the AmiGO app? Can you also mention the language set in your phone settings?

Regards, lampard

Onriver1

Thanks Lampard
I have the Go app and the language is English, applies to everything but place names on the Irish map

lampard

Thanks for coming back @Onriver1! This is already reported earlier and under investigation with our team. I assume this behaviour can only be observed on the Ireland map even though it should be noted that in rural areas, most Street Names will only be captured in Gaelic as no official English name exists.

Regards, lampard

Onriver1

Thanks. That's exactly the issue, only with the Ireland part of the map
It isn't only names where there is only a gaelic name but all place names, including Dublin, for example

AdamF9595

Hi,

Just started using the Tom Tom Go app, downloaded a map for Ireland, but all the location names are in Garlic. How do I change them to English?

AdamF9595

Gaelic, bloody predictive text ☺️

TenaciousDEK

Any update on this issue?

I have the same problem. I'm Irish, but don't speak Gaelic only English, and so don't recognise the street names!

For example, "Wine Street" in Sligo is listed as "Sráid An Fhíona". In reality, everybody knows it as just "Wine Street".

The majority of people in Ireland are English speaking and according to the 2016 census only 39.9% speak Irish with less than 74,000 speaking it on a daily basis. (See https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/how-much-irish-spoken-in-ireland).

Without getting political (as it can be a touchy subject) and based solely on the statistics, I think it is a dubious decision to default the street names in Irish - assuming these are hard coded into the map itself?

Is it possible that you can provide a choice of maps to download for Ireland - ie Gaelic vs English ?

Or is there an application (or phone) option that will allow switching between the two languages on the fly?

szachowa

TenaciousDEK wrote: »

Any update on this issue?

I have the same problem. I'm Irish, but don't speak Gaelic only English, and so don't recognise the street names!

For example, "Wine Street" in Sligo is listed as "Sráid An Fhíona". In reality, everybody knows it as just "Wine Street".

The majority of people in Ireland are English speaking and according to the 2016 census only 39.9% speak Irish with less than 74,000 speaking it on a daily basis. (See https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/how-much-irish-spoken-in-ireland).

Without getting political (as it can be a touchy subject) and based solely on the statistics, I think it is a dubious decision to default the street names in Irish - assuming these are hard coded into the map itself?

Is it possible that you can provide a choice of maps to download for Ireland - ie Gaelic vs English ?

Or is there an application (or phone) option that will allow switching between the two languages on the fly?

We have ticket reported for this issue under IM-21768. I can see that it is being worked on, so the status is still in progress.