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German Town Names

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 18:02
by planetmaker
The recent spree in town name newgrfs motivated me to create a town name set for my mother tongue as well which provides more than the German random town names offered by OpenTTD by default. Let me present you:

German Town Names

It offers you a choice of three different town name lists in the game options window:
* real names from 669 former and present "Kreisstädte" and "kreisfreie Städte"
* randomly generated names from a set of common town name parts
* a combination of the above two with a 3:1 ratio of real names vs. fictional names

Get it in the usual places from the grocery or devzone

Enjoy

Re: German Town Names

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 18:07
by SVW-Gigant
Have you allready placed older East-German Town Names (1937) into the set? :D

Re: German Town Names

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 18:27
by planetmaker
Update to version 0.2.0, available from the DevZone or BaNaNaS.

The set now features all ~2000 official towns within Germany and assigns the probability weighted by their population as of the year 1970; you can also choose separate sub-sets of North, East, West and South Germany.
version 0.2.0 wrote:- Feature: Tripple the number of 'real' town names by including names of current German towns
- Change: Adjust the probability of some pre- and suffixes
- Fix: Saarland has only borders with Rhineland-Palatinate. Thus associate it with the same region
- Fix: Typo in town name
- Fix: Some prefixes of the random townnames were missing a space
- Fix: Some real town names contained too many spaces
- Add: Town name lists by the federal states and combine them to North, South, West and East German town name lists
- Add: Town sizes from 1970 for all towns with currently > 20000 inhabitants and uses these as proxy for probabilities