Mapping in greece?

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Hi,

I have a list of targets I want to map in greece, but the address details are all in greek characters, as would be expected, and i never seem to find anything. In some cases i happen to have an english-ified version, and sometimes that works. I have no idea how i can get from the greek to the english-y one!

I also fail to find anything by greek postcode either. ( i just have a number for that? )

Is this to do with how i’m searching, or is greece just not yet mapped this way?

Thanks,
Dan

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Are the address details you want to add in Greek alphabet characters?

Greek forum: http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewforum.php?id=27
Wikiproject Greece: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Greece

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yes mostly they are. Is that a problem?

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I don’t think I fully understand your problem. Are you talking about the search function on openstreetmap.org? If yes, have you checked whether the places you are searching for are already in the map?

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yes, thats right; So basically there’s places that exist under the english but not the greek version of the name.

I wondered if there was any way i could translate my names, i’ll have to look into that, perhaps bablefish will do the job.

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You can add the names using the tag name:el. You could look up the places in Wikipedia to help you find their English names for searching.