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1 | These datasets were created by OBC Transeuropa in February 2023 in the context of Mapping Diversity. | ||||||||
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3 | Licenses and terms of use | ||||||||
4 | Street names and geographic data: © OpenStreetMap contributors, released under ODbL; © EuroGeographics for the administrative boundaries. | ||||||||
5 | Information from Wikidata is available under a CC0-public domain licence. | ||||||||
6 | All remaining data and content are released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0), so you are free to share, transform, and build upon it for any purpose, as long as you provide a link to the license and indicate if changes were made. | ||||||||
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8 | Sources and methodology | ||||||||
9 | Data on street names was extracted from OpenStreetMap and then matched with Wikidata following the process described here [link]. You can find more information on the data sources, methodology, criteria, and limitations of the analysis here. | ||||||||
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11 | Scope | ||||||||
12 | This analysis covers the following 15 capital cities: Athens, Berlin, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Chisinau, Copenhagen, Kiev, Paris, Prague, Rome, Stockholm, Warsaw, Vienna and Zagreb. | ||||||||
13 | The ranking of the most popular figures in the street names of these capital cities is based on the number of cities in which each figure appears in the name of one or more streets, secondarily on the number of streets dedicated to her or him, thirdly on the number of foreign cities in which each figure appears in the name of one or more streets, and lastly on the total approximated lenght of the streets dedicated to her or him (this data is not shown). | ||||||||
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15 | Columns legend | ||||||||
16 | N of cities | the number of cities in which the name of the person appears at least once in the street names | |||||||
17 | N of streets | the total number of street names in which the person's name appears | |||||||
18 | N of foreign cities | the number of foreign cities (i.e. those located outside the current borders of the country hosting the place where the figure was born) in which the name appears at least once in the street names | |||||||
19 | Field of activity | the field or fields where the person was active, hand-coded based on the list of the person's occupations obtained from Wikidata | |||||||
20 | Country of citizenship | the country or countries of which the figure held the citizenship during her or his lifetime, as obtained from Wikidata | |||||||
21 | Present country of birth | the country hosting the place where the figure was born, according to current borders | |||||||
22 | Present country code | the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of the country of birth, according to current borders | |||||||
23 | Cities | the cities where the name of the person appears at least once in the street names | |||||||
24 | Data on gender, bio, dates of birth/death are directly obtained from Wikidata. | ||||||||
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