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Very interesting, especially for less popular or more regional names. Would love to know more about how it's done: What is the source of those mapping between
by elaus 5y ago
Very interesting, especially for less popular or more regional names.
Would love to know more about how it's done: What is the source of those mapping between names and geo locations? Public phone books to get the address and then some reverse geo-coding?
- gitowiec 5y agoExactly! How come it knows where I live?
- tsujp 5y agoCensus data would be one way, e.g. (one of many) for the UK. https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/census-records/#5-people-in-the-census https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/...
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- mazr 5y agoHere's some of the sources I've seen when working on that topic [1] : Census data, Phone books, Academic bibliographic databases (web of science, pubmed), list of athletes at olympic games, Wikipedia, LinkedIn, ... [1] https://antonomase.fr/fi/mazieres_bms_names.pdf https://antonomase.fr/fi/mazieres_bms_names.pdf you'll find the references to some of these examples.