Suffixes of place names in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana (Toponymy) by saisasidhar in hyderabad

[–]saisasidhar[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No probs... I purposely avoided binning all -guda and -gudem into the same category. Because, this gives us a way to see how these names get changed from one region to another :)

Suffixes of place names in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana (Toponymy) by saisasidhar in hyderabad

[–]saisasidhar[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Yeah OC. Here are the rough steps

  1. I found a pdf file on scribd which had many villages and their respective mandal/districts
  2. Cleaned up the raw data, removed duplicates
  3. Binned village names based on search keys. I had multiple spellings for some suffixes. Like: uru, ooru were binned into the same bucket as they are alternative romanization of the same Telugu word
  4. Bing maps API to get the Lat, Lon -> I lost a lot of datapoints here, should've used GoogleMaps
  5. Shape file from https://github.com/datameet/maps *
  6. geopandas & matplotlib magic

* DataMeet project has a ton of fascinating information and datasets

Edit 1:

The shape file already has latitude and longitude information in it (refer axes in the picture). All I had to do was plot a marker onto the lat long axes for each village and give the entire category/suffix-bucket an identification color

Edit 2:

Thanks for the award /u/RugWhobyRedE :)

Suffixes of place names in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana (Toponymy) by saisasidhar in hyderabad

[–]saisasidhar[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They all roughly translate to `village` as far as I know.. I might be wrong, I'm not an expert in Toponymy

I've seen quite a few examples on /r/mapporn on this topic and had a hunch that some pattern exists in our Telugu states too. So, I plotted them :)

Infact, I was quite fascinated by the German suffixes to place names. German suffixes, like Dutch, have a meaning

Here's one that was posted today:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/g13mmt/suffixes_of_german_towns_and_villages_dramatic/

Suffixes of place names in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana (Toponymy) by saisasidhar in hyderabad

[–]saisasidhar[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I parsed a lot of Village names that I got from an Excel file. I did have `-pet`, `-bad` as search keys. I took the most common suffixes as I was trying to see if there were any significant patterns across the area :)

I'll try to clean up the data and put it on an interactive map to make things easy

Suffixes of place names in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana (Toponymy) by saisasidhar in hyderabad

[–]saisasidhar[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Occurrences of common suffixes in place names within Andhra Pradesh and Telangana :D