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Johan Halmén
Member #1,550
September 2001
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...at naming places. I'm working on a datasheet with 40,000 cities around the World (all over the World for you Flat Earthers). Cities with same names must be distinguished by country and region (state). I find almost no doubles in other states in USA, but Pennsylvania has a lot of them. Here's the list: 1Adams 40.7092 -80.012
2Bethel 39.8458 -75.4891
3Butler 40.8616 -79.8962
4Carroll 40.1142 -77.0191
5Carroll 40.1813 -79.9313
6Center 40.6483 -80.2977
7Conewago 40.0657 -76.7932
8Derry 40.2709 -76.6561
9Exeter 40.3139 -75.834
10Fairview 40.1735 -76.8655
11Franklin 41.3936 -79.8425
12Hamilton 39.9432 -77.7327
13Hanover 39.8117 -76.9835
14Hanover 40.6669 -75.3979
15Hopewell 40.5906 -80.2731
16Jackson 40.3774 -76.3142
17Jackson 39.9057 -76.8796
18Middletown 40.179 -74.9059
19Middletown 39.9094 -75.4312
20Middletown 40.201 -76.7289
21Montgomery 40.2411 -75.2319
22Montgomery 39.7717 -77.8979
23Northampton 40.2104 -75.0014
24Penn 39.7994 -76.9642
25Penn 40.1864 -76.3726
26Plymouth 40.1115 -75.2977
27Richland 40.4491 -75.3362
28Richland 40.2841 -78.845
29Ross 40.5256 -80.0243
30Salisbury 40.5768 -75.4535
31Scott 40.3875 -80.0791
32Southampton 40.0249 -77.546
33Spring 40.3037 -76.0263
34Springfield 39.928 -75.3362
35Springfield 40.0986 -75.2016
36Springfield 39.8466 -76.7112
37Warwick 40.1558 -76.2799
38Washington 39.7494 -77.558
39Washington 40.174 -80.2466
40Washington 40.5093 -79.6011
41Washington 40.7389 -75.6392
New Jersey seems to have three Franklin and four Washington. The numbers are coordinates. Some of them point to more or less the same place. I'm working on an old Earth globe, which will get a stepper motor, a servo motor and a laser beam to point out places. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Years of thorough research have revealed that what people find beautiful about the Mandelbrot set is not the set itself, but all the rest. |
Chris Katko
Member #1,881
January 2002
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Hmm. I guess you could drill down by country, county, then city. But yeah, I never really thought about duplicates... in the same state. Originality is dangerous! [edit] Apparently many more were same named, but the Postal Service refused to allow duplicate names and I guess they changed: https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-cases-of-two-US-cities-with-the-same-name-in-a-single-state There are FIVE Miami Townships in Ohio. O_O Here's a few in other countries but you ain't kidding that it at least "seems" like the USA has the most: https://www.quora.com/Is-the-USA-the-only-country-that-has-multiple-cities-with-the-same-names It could be related to how the US was settled. People quickly moving west into an "almost" empty country (::cough::natives::cough::), maybe keeping the same "town" names to mean their people. Compared with centuries old cities throughout Europe and a much much higher population density. I mean, Russia has plenty of room, for example. But nobody is spending 100+ years rushing to get to that empty area and build towns. It might have to do with the specific culture and political situation of the world at the time too. Maybe "same names" was more acceptable or normal during the specific time of progression across the USA. I mean heck, half the USA cities are named after a British one. (I can't imagine why!) We've got Bristol's all over the place, even Canada! (Also Richmond is popular whereever the UK dumped citizens off including South Africa and Australia): -----sig: |
Johan Halmén
Member #1,550
September 2001
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I have only Miamisburg, Ohio. No Miami in Ohio. First I thought Pennsylvania has listed every and each little borough, while other states have listed only bigger towns. But my listing seems to have all cities with 5000 or more inhabitants. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Years of thorough research have revealed that what people find beautiful about the Mandelbrot set is not the set itself, but all the rest. |
Mark Oates
Member #1,146
March 2001
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Johan Halmén said: I'm working on an old Earth globe, which will get a stepper motor, a servo motor and a laser beam to point out places. That sounds like a neat project. I've always wanted to mess with robots through steppers and motors. What are you using as your platform? Where did you source your motors? -- |
Elias
Member #358
May 2000
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In Ohio any municipality with less than 5000 people (not counting prisoners) loses the right to call itself "city" and is renamed a "village". With people leaving the countryside that's happening to quite a few cities here Besides cities and villages Ohio is also divided geographically into 88 counties and each county is divided into about 20 townships. Those townships have unique names within their county but are re-used for separate counties, so yeah, there may very well be 5 Miami townships. Their only relevance is that if your house is not within any village or city then your address becomes the township - but people living in a village or city probably don't even know the township name as it is meaningless. [edit:] @Johan: I feel your data source for Pennsylvania is mixing cities and townships and most of those duplicates are not cities at all. This list for example has no duplicates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Pennsylvania [edit 2:] This list is like yours though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_Pennsylvania And the meaning of "township" and "city" differs a lot between Ohio and Pennsylvania. So yeah... -- |
LennyLen
Member #5,313
December 2004
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Elias said: In Ohio any municipality with less than 5000 people (not counting prisoners) loses the right to call itself "city" and is renamed a "village". That sounds fair enough. Our town has about 8,000 people and it's way too small to be called a city.
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Chris Katko
Member #1,881
January 2002
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LennyLen said: Our town has about 8,000 people and it's way too small to be called a city. Holy crap, you could fit your entire town into a single building (of many) of my city's medical system. Vanderbilt employs somewhere around 24,000 people (that might include their other hospitals in their system), let alone the amount of patients. The hospital alone has over 1,000 beds! -----sig: |
Johan Halmén
Member #1,550
September 2001
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Mark Oates said: That sounds like a neat project. I've always wanted to mess with robots through steppers and motors. What are you using as your platform? Where did you source your motors? I might use an Arduino MKR 1000 as the central microprocessor. It can use wifi, so it will poll a certain web address to check if anyone has requested it to point to any coordinate. I have an old stepper motor I picked from a matrix printer. It had a perfect cog wheel for a cog belt. I 3D printed another cog wheel, which I attached to the globe around the south pole. I have a hobby servo, which can turn 270 degrees. It will turn a 3D printed thing with the laser pointer and a few super bright white leds. Here's what my page says aout Bristol: <img src="https://d1cxvcw9gjxu2x.cloudfront.net/attachments/613070"> Here's a page with which I test my database: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Years of thorough research have revealed that what people find beautiful about the Mandelbrot set is not the set itself, but all the rest. |
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