EqualStreetNames Wiesbaden

This repository contains the EqualStreetNames submodule for Wiesbaden, Germany.

The map at wiesbaden.equalstreetnames.eu shows the streets and places in Wiesbaden, Germany, tagged with name:etymology:wikidata in OpenStreetMap (and some additional data added locally), and visualizes the gender-distribution of their names.

You can contribute to OpenStreetMap by adding the tag name:etymology:wikidata=<wikidata id> (see below).

This repository was generated from the EqualStreetNames City Template. If you want to replicate the EqualStreetNames project in your city, take a look at the how-to in that repository.

Overpass Query and Editing Workflow

To download the data for all streets in Wiesbaden from OpenStreetMap (e.g. in JOSM expert mode), this query can be used against an Overpass API:

[out:xml][timeout:2500];
{{geocodeArea:Wiesbaden}}->.searchArea;
(
  way["highway"]["name"](area.searchArea);>;
  relation["highway"]["name"](area.searchArea);>;
);
out meta;

You can then search this dataset in JOSM (CTRL + F) for a specific street, e.g. type:way and Rheinstraße, and add the name:etymology:wikidata key and value to the selected way/relation.

Similarly, a list in CSV format can be retrieved using this Overpass Turbo query. The result contains the type (way or relation), id, name and name:etymology:wikidata values of each street. This can be useful to (collaboratively) keep track of research/mapping progress.

Sources

In addition to on-site signs, these are some of the best sources for the origin of street names:

• Personal- und Organisationsamt Wiesbaden, "Nach Persönlichkeiten benannte Straßen", 2018 [Download PDF].
• Reiß, Thorsten (1996), Wiesbadens Straßennamen. Innenstadt und Klarenthal. Herkunft und Bedeutung. Thorsten Reiß Verlag, Wiesbaden.
• Glöckler, Peter-Michael (2021), Wiesbadener Straßennamen. Biebrich. Thorsten Reiß Verlag, Wiesbaden.

The latter two books are available at the Wiesbaden public library (Mauritius Mediathek).