Lately I've been having fun playing with neural network generated place names (heavily indebted to @janellecshane ). I presented the work in progress to a small friendly audience today and it seemed to go down well.
Here are some maps of real (grey) and generated (blue) place names for regions of England. [fainter blues are ones the system expects to be less convincing]
Next I plan to work this into a JavaScript "Call My Bluff" game and put that on the web.
@eldang @janellecshane Oh god, please do this with district names and try to convince Colossal Order to put it into #CitiesSkylines 😍
(The auto generated district names are awful)
@eldang @janellecshane That was actually meant as a joke 😂
@C1710 heh, sorry - I don't know what CitiesSkylines is so must have missed the reference.
@C1710 I don't want to get stuck into another project like this right now because it's a bit too much like my paying work (GIS consultant, i.e. person who fusses over place name exactness for a living). But if you're comfortable with basic command line useage, I can strongly recommend the first tool in @janellecshane 's FAQ http://aiweirdness.com/faq as a quick, painless way to get started with this.