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Developers Now Can Show Google Maps in Hindi

Hiren Pathak
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If you are a developer and have developed a Google Maps application, you can now give a regional touch to your Google Maps application by showing Google controls in Hindi.

This is not official yet but I found a hack which worked out pretty neat. Google Maps APIs allows you to change the map controls, tooltips, and copyrights for a subset of languages. Though Hindi is not included in the list of supported languages, changing one parameter in the script tag now lets you see Google Map controls in Hindi. 

Since Google launched Hindi translation services, I thought that they would have their i18n stuff in place. So in my google map APIs test page, I change the javascript URL to something like below. 

And as I suspected, it worked like a charm. Check out the screen shots below. So if you have a google maps app for Indian users, you can now give them an option to change the map language to Hindi.
 
 
 
 

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    Sam
    2011-11-25 12:25:18
    but does it work for flash as3
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    Hiren Pathak
    2008-09-03 00:37:20
    @Hello JL I am glad you liked the finding,
    If you have developed any Google Mashups, please share it with us. We would love to play around with it.
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    dvxc
    2008-09-03 00:24:41
    very good :grin
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