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Ahyangyi's Finnish Town Name List
Posted: 27 May 2023 14:13
by 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.
Re: Ahyangyi's Finnish Town Name List
Posted: 27 May 2023 15:52
by 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...
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
Re: Ahyangyi's Finnish Town Name List
Posted: 28 May 2023 12:22
by Hei
ahyangyi wrote: ↑27 May 2023 14:13As 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.
Re: Ahyangyi's Finnish Town Name List
Posted: 28 May 2023 13:19
by 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!