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Monday, December 14, 2020

This Map Speaks Māori


If you lot become upset most all the World Maps Without New Zealand therefore you lot mightiness desire to spare a idea for Māori speakers. Even though Google Maps includes New Zealand land its automated vox e'er seems to mispronounce Māori place-names.

To rectify this occupation Vodafone too Google direct maintain released a novel map to crowdsource all the place-names that Google Maps manages to mispronounce. Anyone tin post away driblet a pivot on the Say it tika map to present a location where Google struggles alongside the right Māori pronunciation. All these highlighted place-names volition therefore hold out sent to Te Taura Whiri i te reo Māori (the Māori Language Commission), who direct maintain promised to instruct Google the right pronunciations of Māori place-names.

Most of the locations alongside Māori linguistic communication place-names inwards New Zealand direct maintain already been added to the map. If you lot click on a place-name's marking you lot tin post away head to how Google Maps pronounces the name. If Google gets it incorrect therefore you lot tin post away driblet a map pivot to inform Google of its mistake.