I'm in Ireland, where there are 2 official languages:
1. Irish, or Gaelic, which is on life support from the Government to impress tourists & placate super patriots, enthusiasts and other nutters; but nobody generally speaks or uses Irish.
2. English, which everyone knows and uses when they want to talk or write.

Yet when you zoom in on Dublin via google maps all the place names are in Irish as well. When the name is long, this is quite inconvenient. Zoom in on Cairo, and they're Arabic;

Is there a way to tell google maps to stop showing off it's multilingual aspect and give me the <expletive deleted> map in English?

The url bar should say http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl

Notice the "en". Any other language gives you non-english type.

With your url in the title bar . . . . I'm getting the attached. It's a pain in the proverbial. .

Try zooming in close to street view in Cairo, and you can find Arabic, etc.

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I get just a bit of Arabic in Cairo. Try instead:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=de&tab=wl
You'll get a lot more Arabic.

I don't know Gaelic, so I cannot really tell when the problem is solved.

Neither do we know Gaelic either, for the most part :-).

"Bothar Orwell" is Gaelic. Fine there, because "Orwell" is immutable, not being a Gaelic word. When the name can be translated, it becomes a mess. The two names in the attached shot are the same road - Mourne road. As you can see, this is disconcerting for foreign nationals of whom I know a large number. It appears to be ignoring the '?hl=en' bit of the url. I'll accept that we might need Arabic in Cairo; We certainly don't need Gaelic in Ireland.

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