Efter min optræden i P1 Morgen i går morges om vejnavne, blev jeg kontaktet af en journalist fra TV 2 News, så om eftermiddagen var jeg forbi News & Co. Det kom der dette indslag ud af.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFtyQX_cDbo

#OpenStreetMap

Have you found any funny routes?

The main routes (e.g. from Copenhagen to Aarhus) are not that exciting. It's more internally in the cities it gets interesting.

I also have a list of Danish municipalities and their gender breakdown (both based on real people and fictitious people):
https://navne.findvej.dk/kommuner/

My route planner for Denmark that refuses to drive on roads named after men is now online:
https://osrm.findvej.dk/nomales/

A couple of examples:

Odense:
https://osrm.findvej.dk/nomales/?z=15&center=55.403985%2C10.385385&loc=55.401682%2C10.391736&loc=55.404484%2C10.394011&hl=da&alt=0

Carlsberg Byen:
https://osrm.findvej.dk/nomales/?z=16&center=55.667353%2C12.533405&loc=55.665580%2C12.529242&loc=55.665435%2C12.530379&hl=da&alt=0

#OSRM #OSM #OpenStreetMap

So, yesterday I wrote about my working route planner for Denmark that refuses to drive on roads named after men.

This is based on work I have been doing on OpenStreetMap. I have added information for about 30-40,000 individual Danish roads (about 120-150,000 ways in OSM) linking to Wikidata topics. Afterwards I have put up a frontend to search for street names and topics.

My site is in Danish, but the idea still gets through:
https://navne.findvej.dk/

#OSM #OpenStreetMap #Etymology

Today's fun with OpenStreetMap and route planners: A route planner for Denmark that refuses to drive on roads named after men.

About 40,000 Danish roads (= 35 % af all Danish roads) have been tagged with name:etymology:wikidata to tag into Wikidata's structured content.

Other ideas for funny restrictions? Roads named after politicians of specific political parties? Roads named after royals? (¡Viva la revolución!) Roads named after Swedes?

#OSRM #OSM #OpenStreetMap