Ahyangyi's Finnish Town Name List

[ahyangyi]

I'm dissatisfied with the number of names available in the existing one, so I'm setting out to make my first NewGRF

Current progress: I have made a name list consisting of 16,211 Finnish location names, as well as some prefixes and suffixes for another few thousands of generated ones. I'm now looking at the NML part and hopefully will get it working soon™

The ongoing work is hosted here. I'll post any update when they happen.

As a non-Finnish speaker, I need your feedback.

[ahyangyi]

Ah, NML is quite workable. Version 1 released! It's available on both BaNaNaS and in the "release" section of the Github Repo

For my own enjoyment, I also added a "transliterated Chinese" version...

[Hei]

As a non-Finnish speak, I need your feedback.

Great effort!

I can see one potential problem: When the game language is set to Finnish, OpenTTD uses the prefixes Etelä-, Itä-, Länsi-, Pohjois-, Keski-, Ala-, and Ylä- (meaning South, East, West, North, Central, Lower, Upper) for naming stations (see finnish.txt or the attached screenshot). This might lead to confusing results if, for example, both Lahti and Keski-Lahti are towns in a game.

[ahyangyi]

Good point! I'll use the OpenTTD code as a reference to filter all the names that can be confused with the generated station names.

I have some further questions:

• Are the non-hyphenated versions such as Pohjoislahti also confusing?
• Are names such as "Suolahden Mäkikylä" OK?

EDIT:
For now, I have filtered out the most confusing ones (the names that look like what OpenTTD generates), and uploaded as version 2!