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I wrote the British Placename Mapper (https://placenames.rtwilson.com/) last weekend, and it got a bit of traction on Twitter here in Britain over the last week.

It lets you search for parts of British place names, and will plot the places that match on an interactive map, so you can search for places that start with 'great' or end with 'burgh' or contain 'sea' (or you can use regexes for more complex stuff). People have found some cool patterns with it.


Awesome project. One of my favourites is places ending "-wich" which are very few and scattered throughout non-Danelaw England


Wow, this is a great idea and really fun to look at.


I came here to post this - fascinating book, which I loved.


SEEKING WORK | Southampton, UK | Remote only, Part-time

I'm a freelance data scientist and Python developer, with a specialism in geospatial technologies, mapping and satellite imaging - though open to any work in the data field. Very experienced in the scientific/data Python stack (numpy, scipy, pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn etc), active in open-source.

See my website for more details or email me on robin@rtwilson.com

Website: http://www.rtwilson.com


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