German Town Name Set
by Uwe Domaratius

Version 1.1 (October 25th, 2008)


1. What does this set offer?

With TTDPatch or OpenTTD one can define new town names instead of having to play 
with the rather awkward standard ones. This set includes the names of almost all 
cities and towns in Germany, totalling to around 2000 names.


2. How to install?

TTDPatch
Copy the file germantowns.grf into the "newgrf" directory and add the line 
"newgrf/germantowns.grf" to your "newgrf(w).cfg" file.

OpenTTD
Copy the file germantowns.grf into the "data" directoy and activate it through 
the in-game menu.


3. Which town names are available?

TTDPatch
Only the names of the 90 biggest cities are available, because one can only have 
up to 70 towns on the map anyway. The list is based on the one in Wikipedia:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_gr%C3%B6%C3%9Ften_St%C3%A4dte_Deutschlands

All towns have the same probability of appearance. Additional name parts 
indicating the position of the town within Germany (cmp Frankfurt/Main) were 
removed.

OpenTTD
There are five variants:
German Town Names:       all 2000 names of towns from all over Germany
German Town Names North: some 300 towns from Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, 
                         Schleswig-Holstein plus Bremen and Hamburg
German Town Names East:  around 520 towns in Brandenburg, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, 
                         Thuringia plus Berlin
German Town Names South: about 600 towns in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria
German Town Names West:  some 580 names from Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, 
                         Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland

The set is designed in such a way that names of big cities are chosen with a 
much higher probability. That is, on a small map, you will very likely end up 
with many names of well-known large cities, but only a few if any of small 
towns.

The names were taken from a list in Wikipedia:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_St%C3%A4dte_in_Deutschland

Note that some names had to be excluded, for example there is Frankfurt/Main and 
Frankfurt/Oder, or Halle/Saale and Halle (Westfalen), and quite a number of 
Neustadts. In such cases, the biggest one was chosen. Additonal name parts that 
indicate the position within Germany or near a river were removed.

4. Supplying Parameters

TTDPatch
The default behaviour of this set is to offer localized town names. That is, if 
you are running the French version of Transport Tycoon, some towns will use 
different names, e.g. Aachen becomes Aix-la-Chapelle. The same applies to the 
English version of the game, which will lead to München becoming Munich, for 
example.

This default behaviour can be overridden by adding a parameter to the entry in 
your "newgrf(w).cfg" file. The following parameters are possible:

1 - enforce English style names
2 - enforce German names
3 - enforce French style names

Using other parameter values will switch to English style names.

OpenTTD
The same parameters as for TTDPatch can be given, but it will only change the 
menu entry to a localized version, the actual town names are always the German 
ones.


5. Necessary TTDPatch settings

The line "newtownnames on" has to be present in the ttdpatch.cfg file.


6. Copyright Notice

German Town Names Set - © 2008 Uwe Domaratius - All Rights Reserved.

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