Tag: Present day

• Ginnel, snicket or twitten? Britain’s alley words on the street signs

  

  I mapped all 3,382 named alleys in the UK by the word in their name. 88% of twittens are in Sussex, every chare is in the North East, and London’s 375 named alleys use a regional word just 2 times.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, cities, Dialect, language and dialect, OpenStreetMap, Present day, Scotland, Street names, Text mining, UK

• Which places get Parliament’s attention?

  

  A century of Hansard and 1,596 UK towns. London took 49% of the Commons’ town mentions in the 1910s and 18% in the 2010s, yet where a place stands is still mostly about the place itself.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, cities, Hansard, London, Parliament, Present day, Public attention, Text mining, Twentieth century, UK

• Black rivers, white springs: the colours of the world’s place names

  

  I found 138,453 places named after a colour, in 20 languages. Rivers run black, springs run white, the commonest colour name on Earth is Cerro Colorado, and a fifth of Russia’s red is revolutionary.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  GeoNames, language and dialect, Languages, place names, Present day, Rivers, Text mining, World, world maps

• Does anyone play your town?

  

  Volunteers have documented 7,615 UK concerts in MusicBrainz. I mapped every one by council area. 70 of 167 big council areas have no documented tour date, and arena towns hold 53% of them.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, cities, games, Music, Place search, Present day, Twentieth century, UK

• Not where it says on the ticket: the airports and stations far from their namesake

  

  Frankfurt-Hahn is 103 km from Frankfurt and Paris Vatry 136 km from Paris. I measured how far every airport and every UK railway station stands from the place in its name, and checked every long case by hand.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, Data bias, OpenStreetMap, place names, Present day, railways, Transport, UK, Wikidata, World