Tuesday, February 14, 2017

spatial patterns in the endings of German town and village names

grun
Оч любопытно:

пространственное распределение названий населённых пунктов

но в Германии :)
для знающих толк в немецком будет полезно
к примеру, зелёный

по-моему, на карте Тюрингский лес

A visual exploration of the spatial patterns in the endings of German town and village names. I picked the most interesting suffixes from https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortsname and cross-referenced them with a list of place names from geonames. Darker colors indicate a higher proportion of place names with the respective suffix in a geographic cell. Hover over a cell for a while to see a tooltip with the place names. Please note: My approach is not 100% scientific, as I only match the letters at the end of the string, not actual syllables. So, Kirchbach matches -ach. #justsaying Yet, it's a dataset I always found interesting to explore; plus, this quick experiment gave me the opportunity to play a bit with a few new tools and libraries I wanted to learn more about. Find the code at: http://github.com/moritzstefaner/ach-ingen-zell And, here's a few screenshots. Feel free to use them when you report on the project, but please link back to this page. Moritz Stefaner, 2016

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