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24 alternatives to Study of British place names: locations and frequencies of n-grams

:european_castle: Mapping British place names and other analysis - DanielJohnBenton/TownsAndVillages

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Study of British place names: locations and frequencies of n-grams launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Free database of geographic place names and corresponding geospatial data - delight-im/FreeGeoDB

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

  2. 2LW

    Hi HN, I made a web game to practice country locations a while ago and HN liked it, so I thought I'd post my updated version as well. As for how the game works and feels, I'd really recommend you checking it out for yourself, it's free, no signup, no ads. The tech stack is Vue + ts + Tailwind/Daisy for the looks. The learning algorithm is a slight modification of the ts version of FSRS. If you have anything to add, it's open source as well (https://github.com/koljapluemer/learn-worldmap), although not well documented yet. In the end it's just a little sideproject,…

    2025 · map.koljapluemer.com · its alternatives →

  3. 3KG

    Hi HN! My latest side project is knowledge graph that maps the French culinary network using data extracted from restaurant reviews from LeFooding.com. The project uses LLMs to extract structured information from unstructured text. Some technical aspects you may be interested in: - Used structured generation to reliably parse unstructured text into a consistent schema - Tested multiple models (Mistral-7B-v0.3, Llama3.2-3B, gpt4o-mini) for information extraction - Created an interactive visualization using gephi-lite and Retina (WebGL) - Built (with Claude) a simple Flask web app to clean and…

    2025 · theophilecantelob.re · its alternatives →

  4. 4IM

    Hi HN, I built a little tool to help me get better at remembering country locations on the map: https://learn-worldmap.netlify.app/ It's made from plain HTML/CSS/JS, and not intended to make any money or anything. Just thought that maybe someone else may enjoy it. Also of course happy about any feedback! Cheerz.

    2023 · learn-worldmap.netlify.app · its alternatives →

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    Last weekend, I tried creating an original visualization of something on many minds in my home country the Netherlands: land use. Much of our discussion revolves around land use—housing crisis, sustainable farming, solar energy—it's all about the land. To illustrate this, I created a map where each hexagon represents 0.06% (26,647 hectares) of land in the Netherlands. The color indicates the type of land use.

    2024 · koenvangilst.nl · its alternatives →

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    We’ve just open-sourced Vicinity, a lightweight approximate nearest neighbors (ANN) search package that allows for fast experimentation and comparison of a larger number of well known algorithms. Main features: - Lightweight: the base package only uses Numpy - Unified interface: use any of the supported algorithms and backends with a single interface: HNSW, Annoy, FAISS, and many more algorithms and libraries are supported - Easy evaluation: evaluate the performance of your backend with a simple function to measure queries per second vs recall - Serialization: save and load your index for…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I wrote a tool in Python that finds the school district associated with any given street address in the United States. Here’s how it works: An address corresponds to a single point on the map. The U.S Census Bureau has a geocoder that converts an address to latitude and longitude coordinates. School district boundaries can be represented as polygons on the map. The National Center for Education Statistics (NECS) has geographic data on school district boundaries. Once we determine which polygon the point resides in, we know the school district.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    We have another election coming up at the end of this month here in the Netherlands, and how we use our limited land is a hotly debated topic. Last year also I shared this animated hexagonal map of Dutch land use. I've now expanded this to include several more European countries, so you can see what makes Dutch land use so special - or not. If you want to help add more countries, I'd appreciate PRs on GitHub. The map rendering is already there, it only requires land use data which can be found in the SQLite database (at least for EU countries). Github:…

    2025 · onsland.koenvangilst.nl · its alternatives →

  10. 10EE

    2014 · earlyprint.wustl.edu · its alternatives →

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    Just a fun toy I wanted to make. I've been studying and playing around with language models lately and have always been intrigued by how words are processed by these models. Since the vectors generated by embedding models is in very high dimensional space, I thought it would be cool to reduce them to 3D vectors and visualise them myself. This is what I have so far!

    2023 · seesaurus.com · its alternatives →

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    Interactive UK house price heatmap with 30 years of data. Search any postcode to explore average prices, trends and transaction volumes from 1995 to 2026.

    Jan 2026 · housepricedashboard.co.uk · its alternatives →

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    2017 · lmcinnes.github.io · its alternatives →

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    A researched study of the rare Cornish surname Colenso: its locative origin near Penzance, its spread to New Zealand, Australia, Natal and America, and where its ~669 living bearers are now.

    2014 · colenso.org · its alternatives →

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    Just a quick little feature I implemented over the weekend. TODO: Assure that polygons can be palindromic as well

    2024 · altayakkus.dev · its alternatives →

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    I've been building a bunch of US geography tools/games/visualizations and thought folks on HN might like this one. There are also drive-time and bike-time tools available on the same page. For folks interested, all of the data comes from OpenStreetMap and the US Census at the moment - OSM for routing and points interest and the US Census for population data. Anonymous users can use it 5x/day. I put up a waitlist page to gauge interest in a paid version but there's no way for the public to make an account - feel free to bypass the limits in an incognito tab. The site is US-only…

    Jul 2026 · blockatlas.com · its alternatives →

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    GitHub Typo Corpus: A Large-Scale Multilingual Dataset of Misspellings and Grammatical Errors - mhagiwara/github-typo-corpus

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Data exploration and visualisation for Elasticsearch and Splunk. - dutchcoders/marija

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A utility for crawling websites and building frequency lists of words - calebwin/frequent

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    London TfL and borough data used in making housequest.co.uk property search tool for London - housequest-data/london_stations.geojson at master · radoi90/housequest-data

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    昼夜問わず多くの人で賑わう渋谷には、朝から夜まで遊べるキャバクラ店が軒を連ねています。ミグレイションズマップでは、そんな渋谷及び近隣エリアでおすすめのキャバクラ店をご紹介しています。また、キャバ嬢、同伴やアフターに使えそうな飲食店、口コミなども取りあげています。

    2011 · migrationsmap.net · its alternatives →

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