Re: [Gramps-users] http://www.frappr.com Ancestor Report

[Doug L. <lai...@ho...>]

I haven't taken it that far, but I have given surfers the opportunity to place 
themselves: http://www.douglaidlaw.net/boykett/  My map is from Bravenet.

Legacy gives the author the opportunity to download and use a GeoLocation 
database.  I believe that other programs do the same.  That would give you 
the data.  It would then be a question of extracting it. and feeding it to 
the mapping program, which raises the additional considerations you 
mentioned.  Using the same database in both places would help, but then the 
plugin might work only for the one database (for example Legacy's).  A 
publicly available database would be better.  I don't know about the multiple 
place-names: perhaps make the plugin skip ambiguous ones.

Don't ask me to do it; I am not qualified.

Doug.

On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 1:26 am, Martin Hawlisch wrote:
> Tom,
>
> > Von: Tom Weichmann <to...@ad...>
> > Betreff: [Gramps-users] http://www.frappr.com Ancestor Report
> >
> > Now if GRAMPS could find a way to export data on where all your ancestors
> > are
> >
> > >from and plot them on a http://www.frappr.com (or equiv) map....
> >
> > I think that would be really great!!
>
> This is not a new idea. I was braining about this some time ago.
>
> A custom google map is simple to create. You only have to know some HTML
> and JavaScript (but easy adaplable examples exist), and you have to
> register an account for that map (which requires you to know the URL where
> the page will be published).
> A GRAMPS plugin that exports the places into the required XML should not be
> too difficult to do. Only problem is the lack of manpower in the
> development team.
>
> The biggest problems are:
> Each place has to be exactly defined in coordinates, and those have to be
> put into GRAMPS in a well defined format.
> It is not possible to automatically retrieve the coordinates for a given
> place. For example guess how many towns in germany have the name
> "Neustadt". Well, you could say that you entered county, state and country
> names... but did use the full names? Abbrevations? And in what language? So
> this big task is up to the user: Search somewhere to get the coordinates.
> But: there are multiple formats used for defining coordinates. Gramps could
> implement the most common ones to verify the input (problem: lack of
> manpower in development team).
>
> Any volunteers?
>
>
> Cheers,
>   Martin.

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