Neat site but seems somewhat inaccurate for very low number surnames. Cheers Andy
> -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Chilton [mailto:s.l.chil...@mdx.ac.uk] > Sent: 08 October 2012 15:40 > To: Richard Fairhurst; talk-gb@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Bomb dropped on St Helens Town Centre > > Richard > > Another version (from CASA @UCL): > http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org/Map.aspx?name=FAIRHURST&year=1998 > &altyear=1881&country=GB&type=name > > Cheers > Steve > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Fairhurst [mailto:rich...@systemed.net] > Sent: 08 October 2012 14:26 > To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Bomb dropped on St Helens Town Centre > > Nick Whitelegg wrote: > > As an aside I'm quite surprised at that, as almost all places ending > > in "hurst" in the UK are south of the M4 and east of two degrees west. > > That sort of factoid is surely what OpenStreetMap was invented for. :) > > The origin of Fairhursts is quite starkly regional, though: > http://www.ancestry.co.uk/name-origin?surname=fairhurst > > cheers > Richard > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Bomb- > dropped-on-St-Helens-Town-Centre-tp5729428p5729469.html > Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Please note that Middlesex University's preferred way of receiving all > correspondence is via email in line with our Environmental Policy. All > incoming post to Middlesex University is opened and scanned by our digital > document handler, CDS, and then emailed to the recipient. > > If you do not want your correspondence to Middlesex University processed > in this way please email the recipient directly. Parcels, couriered items and > recorded delivery items will not be opened or scanned by CDS. There are > items which are "exceptions" which will be opened by CDS but will not be > scanned a full list of these can be obtained by contacting the University. > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2013.0.2677 / Virus Database: 2591/5816 - Release Date: 10/07/12 _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb