City Name Generator Update

Roughly a month ago, the City Name Generator was discussed on wykop.pl. At the time, I was buried with various life tasks and didn’t dig into the resultant traffic. Today, I took the time to look back at the traffic and the comments about the generator. Frankly, the commentary indicated the data for Poland was crap. Originally, it was generated using information from the GeoNET Names Server from the NGA.

The comments were correct. The Poland database was chuck full of erroneous entries, many of which with Germanic origins. I scrapped the table in favor of a source directly from Poland’s government. I’ll have to evaluate other countries derived from the GNS data at some point in the future.