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A method and system for supporting alternative names of geographic locations with a navigation application program that uses a geographic database stored on a computer-readable medium. The alternative names of geographic locations include names in a plurality of different languages. Included are one

A method and system for supporting alternative names of geographic locations with a navigation application program that uses a geographic database stored on a computer-readable medium. The alternative names of geographic locations include names in a plurality of different languages. Included are one or more language filters. Each of the one or more language filters associates the data records in the geographic database that are used as names for geographic locations with one or more of the plurality of different languages. A routine uses the one or more language filters so that the navigation application program can use names for geographic locations that are valid in an access language selected from among the plurality of different languages.

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1. A computer usable medium having a map database embodied thereon, wherein the map database comprises:a plurality of data records representing geographic features in a geographic region; alternative names for said geographic features represented by said plurality of data records, wherein said alter

1. A computer usable medium having a map database embodied thereon, wherein the map database comprises:a plurality of data records representing geographic features in a geographic region; alternative names for said geographic features represented by said plurality of data records, wherein said alternative names include names in a plurality of different languages, wherein said plurality of data records are separated into a plurality of parcels each of which includes a portion of the plurality of data records and wherein the portion of the plurality of data records in each parcel represents those geographic features located within a separate distinct geographic area into which the geographic region is divided, a plurality of internal language filters, each of which is associated with a respective one of said plurality of parcels, wherein each of said plurality of internal language filters provides for selecting those alternative names for the geographic features represented by the plurality of data records in its respective parcel that are valid in a selectable language.