Parts of Wikipedia in another language

fredf

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Jul 14, 2019, 4:50:46 PM7/14/19

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I uploaded Wikipedia Wisconsin along with the Wisconsin state map (US) for a trip I recently took. About 1/3 of the POI descriptions ended up being in some language I don't recognize, thus useless to me.

Is there a way to deal with this either at upload or when using the map?

Thanks.

Michael O'Kelly

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Jul 18, 2019, 10:53:00 PM7/18/19

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Hi, FredF. You may be seeing POIs for the Cebuano language Wikipedia. These often show up even in the U.S. when viewing all Wikipedia POI's. When you activate the Wikipedia layer using "Search / Categories", be sure to choose "Wikipedia English" rather than the more broad "Wikipedia" as the category. (Also make sure you have the most recent version of OSMAnd -- there was a bug until recently that could sometimes result in Cebuano appearing even in "Wikipedia English" results.)

fredf

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Jul 19, 2019, 4:24:48 PM7/19/19

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Thanks for the reply Michael. You are correct; I just noticed a box next to the POI name that says "Ceb".

There is no option to change that there so I returned to Config. Map > POI overlay and changed it from Wikipedia to Wikipedia English but, unfortunately, that did not solve the problem. I'll have to figure out how to update OSMand and see if that works.