Addon:PlaceCoordinatesGramplet
From Gramps
|
This is a Third-party Addon. The Addon/Plugin system is controlled by the Plugin Manager. Please use carefully on data that is backed up, and help make it better by reporting any issues to the bug tracker. |
|
Internet Access required The Place Coordinates Gramplet reads geolocations from the internet. |
The Place Coordinates Gramplet simplifies setting the coordinates of a place and also provides an additional geography view.
Contents
Usage
Add the Gramplet to the bottom bar of the Places Category.
Options
Searching geolocations of places from the DB
Searching place names from geolocations from the DB
It also provides a geography view Place Coordinate Gramplet View (PlaceCoordinateGeoView) with a context menu that enables:
- Adding cities as new places
- Adding addresses as new places
- Linking existing places with geolocations
Prerequisites
Requires:
- GeocodeGlib be installed.
- GeocodeGlib/geocode-glib is a convenience library for the geocoding (finding longitude, and latitude from an address) and reverse geocoding (finding an address from coordinates). It uses Nominatim service (from openstreetmap.org ) to achieve that. It also caches (reverse-)geocoding requests for faster results and to avoid unnecessary server load.
- Internet Access required
Issues
- On linux an older version of libgeocode-glib0 (3.18.2) causes segmentation faults when pressing the search button.
- Please update to a newer version of that library. For example:
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/geocode-glib/libgeocode-glib0_3.25.4.1-4ubuntu0.18.04.1_amd64.deb apt-get install ./libgeocode-glib0_3.25.4.1-4ubuntu0.18.04.1_amd64.deb
- Help button goes to https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gramps_6.0_Wiki_Manual_-_Gramplets#Place_Coordinates instead of this page
