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Dan Hon recently trained an A.I. to generate British placenames. I followed his recipe and did the same for Oregon placenames.

I found a list of real Oregon placenames at the US Board on Geographic Names. I did a round of A.I. training with the raw data and found the output too noisy. So I did a little data massaging and gave it another shot, this time with cleaner results.

I set the whole thing up on a free AWS instance with the torch-rnn docker image. It was a snap. A slow snap. It would be faster with more processing power.

Without further setup, plan your next camping trip and imagine the vistas you'll see in such artificially imagined Oregon places as:

• Thkewood Meadows
• Cookstop Lake
• Thedrel Springs Cemetery
• Water Reservoir
• Rogah Butte
• Newar Creek
• Willaning Creek
• Dazian
• Booper Summit
• Pister Creek Ranch Spring
• Josspor Ridge
• Bickmass Log Pond
• Trout Bucktuby
• Monnnit Hellant Plant Creek
• Pitter Cip Number One
• Seven Creek
• Giam Creek
• Hemil M Creek
• Hug Waterhole
• Dukapin Meadows
• Bensbush Creek
• Malow Creek
• Lattle Lake Recreation Meadows
• Mule Park
• Road Ranch
• Bruck Creek
• Gregley Park Recreation Site
• Forent Well
• Kench Bed Reservoir
• Indian Slide
• Sinkhawk Trail
• Tondyle Canyon
• Spilling Pond
• Syn Reservoir
• Pieson Reservoir
• Thirn Mountain
• Fence and Swalich
• Lower Spring Cemetery
• Bolard Creek
• Coney Butte Park
• Skihino Peak
• Laix Spring
• Clenmill Creek
• Oshers Forest
• Fork Slow Spring

This is a random linear sampling from potentially infinite output. It might be funnier to go through with an editorial eye and find the most amusing, but it's getting late and I have a trip to Fence and Swalich to plan.

I have a few more at Flickr: OCF 2016 Album.