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ulitza

Famous people on street signs around the world

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Observed mentions: 2023-09-04 05:24:10 UTC to 2023-09-26 15:21:06 UTC.

0122023-09-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsSep 42023-09-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2023-09-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsSep 152023-09-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsSep 26

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Sep 42023-09-04 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-05 00:00:00 UTC211
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Sep 262023-09-26 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-27 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

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dalke·Sep 5, 2023
If I understand https://github.com/mihaiolteanu/ulitza/blob/7df974105aaf9776... correctly, it means the 9 mentions of "Polhem" are ignored. I think it should point to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Polhem "Bellmans" very likely refers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Michael_Bellman Ulricehamn is named in honour of Queen Ulrica Eleonora, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulricehamn but I can see how a street containing "Ulricehamn" may be more directly named after the city. "Sankt Pers" is an older Swedish term for St. Peter. https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrus "Sankt Eriks" is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_IX_of_Sweden "Nordenskiölds" is difficult since it can refer to several members of the family. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordenski%C3%B6ld_(surname) including (and most likely) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_
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Erik_Nordenski%C3%B6ld . "Olof Palme" is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olof_Palme with at least 5 streets in Google Maps (the entry has a "3", which I guess is the number of entries in the source data). "Strindberg" is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Strindberg The Tegnérsgatan in Stockholm is named after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esaias_Tegn%C3%A9r (connection written at https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegn%C3%A9rgatan). There are at least 5 different cities with a Tegnérsgatan. Also, in the US data "Santa Fe", "St. Francis", and "San Francisco" all refer to Saint Francis of Assisi. "The name "Santa Fe" means 'Holy Faith' in Spanish, and the city's full name as founded remains La Villa Real de la Santa Fé de San Francisco de Asís ('The Royal Town of the Holy Faith of Saint Francis of Assisi').[5][6]" from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe%2C_New_Mexico "San Francisco was founded on June 29, 1776, when settlers from New Spain established the Presidio of San Francisco at the Golden Gate, and the Mission San Francisco de Asís a few miles away, both named for Francis of Assisi." from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco "Sir Francis Drake" is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Drake . The author has take on a very heavy mantle. This is not a task that can easily be automated. Two streets with the same name may easily be named after two different people.
In The most famous persons of every country based on street names (13.000 names)
molteanu·Sep 4, 2023
It depends on the quality of the data coming from openstreetmap and on my ability, in this case, to label the streets correctly. This is the raw file, including eponyms, for Iraq, https://github.com/mihaiolteanu/ulitza/blob/main/eponyms/ira... Feel free to add/adjust it. Yes, adding city names would be interesting. But it would also add tons of extra info to the file. Some countries have hundreds or even thousands of counts for a single name only.
In Show HN: Ulitza – street names worldwide
molteanu·Sep 4, 2023Submission

Show HN: Ulitza – street names worldwide

I wanted to know what the most popular street names in my country were. Who were all those men and women I saw everywhere on street signs, some of which quite popular, some I've never even heard of before. Eventually, out of curiosity, I've extended my search to my neighbouring countries and, finally, to all the countries in the world. I've analyzed all the street names from OpenStreetMap (osm) and kept only those named after a person (eponyms). For each country in turn I've sorted the names by their frequency and I've added wikipedia links to them. The osm data is not consistent from country to country and there is no clear separation between names of streets, bridges, squares, public buildings or any other similar landmarks. As a result, all such landmarks are taken into consideration, as long as they are eponyms. So "street names" was
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a bit of a useful lie to get you this far. I've sometimes also included the names of fictional characters, or a group of people if those are well-known or important from a historical point of view. To avoid duplicate entries, there is only one name allowed per city. Affixes like "street", "boulevard", "square" and similar ones, are removed. If more than one name refers to the same person, they are considered equivalent and are not counted more than once. Besides the per-country eponyms frequency, having all this data allows for an extra piece of information. Who are the persons appearing most often around the world? The front page presents just that. Every count besides every name is clickable and lists the name of countries where that name appears in. about: https://ulitza.net/about github: https://github.com/mihaiolteanu/ulitza
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