Zur Auswertung digital gespeicherter Straßennamen

Abstract

This article draws attention to the corpus of digitally stored street names. While it has become common practice to use a suitable telephone CD-ROM for the cartographic presentation and linguistic interpretation of family names, street names, in this respect, have been overlooked so far. Applying his own software the author presents 14 maps of different character to set an example for various possibilities of including street names into onomastic research. First and foremost, this particular class of names is suited to get a rough overview of historical, historico-cultural, lexical, phonological, structural and social or sociological facts. In some special cases, maps showing the distribution of street names can provide information that is not available in a different way. At any rate, the selection of street names to be processed for cartographic presentation and the maps themselves require careful interpretation.