+HondaGirl2006 Posted July 2, 2019 Share Posted July 2, 2019 Hi, I am wondering if there is a way to translate a Geocache into English? I am going to travel to Europe and need to know how to translate the geocaching pages. Thanks, ~Darlene~ 1 Quote Link to comment
+Hügh Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 The best I can recommend is copy-pasting the description into Google Translate. Alternatively, copy-paste the geocache URL into google translate, and it'll translate the whole cache page (note that this only works for basic-member-accessible caches). Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 (edited) 10 hours ago, HondaGirl2006 said: Hi, I am wondering if there is a way to translate a Geocache into English? I am going to travel to Europe and need to know how to translate the geocaching pages. Thanks, ~Darlene~ Having geocached in 16 countries in Europe, and as an English speaker, I haven't found that having some cache listings only written in some language other than English is really a problem. There are plenty of caches that *are* in English, or can be found without reading the cache description, or a google translate of the cache page is sufficient to find the ache, and I have never felt that I've needed to "find them all". Edited July 3, 2019 by NYPaddleCacher 1 Quote Link to comment
+hzoi Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 This question comes up every couple months; there are a lot of resources out there if you check older discussions. On 6/4/2019 at 2:46 PM, hzoi said: Search results for Translation Quote Link to comment
+cerberus1 Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 Google translate gets you understanding the basics for all caches (it doesn't always recognize slang). I'd do the research of puzzles and similar caches ahead of time at home. Most here don't read simpler 1.5 and under hides. - Coordinates don't need to be translated... Quote Link to comment
+frumiousb Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 In Chrome, foreign-language pages are generally automatically translated for me (by Google Translate, presumably) - except on geocaching.com. There seems to be some code within cache pages that keeps Chrome from asking if I want them to be translated. Example: https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC7T345 (in Polish) Quote Link to comment
yrcko Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 I found that deepL translator ( https://www.deepl.com/de/translator ) is much better than any other translator, at least for German-English, that's where I use it. 1 Quote Link to comment
+Phronimos Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 A year on, this was never answered? This is my issue as well. 2 Quote Link to comment
+Viajero Perdido Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 (edited) Depends on your platform and caching app. You haven't specified. On mine (Android, Locus Map, Google Translate installed), I can translate both listings and logs via a Translate menu item. PS, for places mapped bilingually in OSM (Hong Kong is a great example), Locus also rocks for showing maps in your choice of language (showing "Kowloon" rather than "九龍"). I don't think Groundspeak's offerings have any translation option built-in... Edited September 10, 2022 by Viajero Perdido 1 Quote Link to comment
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