ulitza v1.0.7

What

Lists of streets and landmarks named after a person (eponyms) for all countries worldwide. All data is extracted from openstreetmap, parsed, cleaned and carefully edited by hand.

Usage (API)

• eponyms(country: string, n?: number):

Get the n most frequent eponyms for the given country. If n is not specified, get the complete list of known eponyms.

It returns a list of eponyms, where each eponym is a list containing a Name, Frequency and WikipediaURL.

eponyms("france", 3)
=> 
[
  ['Charles de Gaulle', 1151, 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle'],
  ['Jean Moulin', 666, 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Moulin' ],
  ['Jean Jaurès', 598, 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Jaurès' ],
]

eponyms("france").length
=> 
1046

• eponymName(eponym: []): String

Takes an eponym as returned from the eponyms command, and returns it's name.

R.map(eponymName, eponyms("france", 3))
=>
[ 'Charles de Gaulle', 'Jean Moulin', 'Jean Jaurès' ]

• eponymCount(eponym: []): number

Takes an eponym as returned from the eponyms command, and returns it's count.

R.map(eponymCount, eponyms("france", 3))
=>
[ 1151, 666, 598 ]

• eponymURL(eponym: []): String

Takes an eponym as returned from the eponyms command, and returns it's wikipedia url.

R.map(eponymURL, eponyms("france", 3))
=>
[
  'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle',
  'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Moulin',
  'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Jaurès'
]