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…
I just redesigned an old (1 year) project and would appreciate any feedback. The site has no real purpose other than allowing you to explore the large amount of imagery gathered by Google. You can make it less random by choosing a country, or indeed any geographical area (cities etc.) http://www.mapcrunch.com Thanks
