With street data from
openstreetmap,
extra info such as summary and photos from wikipedia and a
careful, by-hand, selection of each and every entry in the list (details
below.)
What is this
The most famous persons in every country's history, be them
scientists, heroes, poets or politicians are usually given an
eternal place of honor on street signs. That is, by naming
streets in the recognition of their deeds. So I've taken each
country from every continent and found out all such names and
arranged them from the most frequent to the less known faces.
Why did you do it
Well, why not? Seriously now, this is a great way to discover
world history. Or purely for curiosity's sake. Given that each
entry links to their respective wikipedia article, with plenty of
links to empires of the past, literature genres, regions of the
world and what not, there is plenty of material for the
adventurous minds out there.
How did you do it
All the data is taken from
openstreetmap. They
are not my invention. If the data speaks of evil, don't shoot
the messenger! What
I did was take all this info from
openstreetmap, clean it up, find out what entries are really
street names, extract those, clean up the duplicates, merge
similar naming streets into one, sum them all up and find a
wikipedia article for each person with a relevant summary and a
nice picture. The orange number to the right of each name is
that sum from above, the total number of cities where that name
appears at least on one street.
For even more technical details, see the project's
github page.