This is the "next generation" of my
"City Name Generator" program.
I finally started making headway on this program. I did a lot of research on how cities and towns are named in the United States. Unfortunately, this means that the program currently only generates "American" city names. I simplified the data files to include just root words, prefixes, suffixes, and names. Most cities and towns were either named after a person or were descriptive of the area. Then they might add a suffix and/or prefix to create the name. This program basically does the same thing, but I still need to work a little more on it.
When it's complete, it will randomly generate fictional nations.txt & cities.txt files.
Current Features:
- Can randomly create up to 4 nations. (Just to keep it simple for now.)
- Generates the Country Name and Nationality
- Generates 400,000 cities within a just a few seconds (Screen freezes momentarily if generating more than that)
- I have had it successfully generate over a million cities at one time
- Also, it will be able to generate latitude and longitude for each city, while keeping the nations separated.
- Does not generate duplicate city names.
Here is a screen shot below and just a sample of the city names that it generates currently. This sample list of 100,000 names was generated in less than 2 seconds. I still want to add to the data files to allow for much more wide spread naming. The generated country names are pretty poor, to be honest, but I believe most people would want to name the countries themselves. This at least gives them something to work with if they want it.