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Show HN: Study of British place names: locations and frequencies of n-grams (github.com)
5 points by DJohnBenton 3238 days ago
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Interested to know what folks think - if there are any obvious mistakes, if you have any requests for strings to map, or any cool ideas we could try with the data.
This would be awesome as an interactive map - mousing over the places would be interesting.
Wow that's a pretty good idea - I'll see if I can find a way to make this. I think I'd need some kind of map API that lets me plot coordinates and define mouse-over text for each pin.
You can likely base a map on this: http://bl.ocks.org/michellechandra/0b2ce4923dc9b5809922 - the UK GeoJSON data is here: https://github.com/martinjc/UK-GeoJSON
Interesting. It looks like I can use d3-geo to get a map of the world and then clip it down from there. I'll have a play with it after work.