Re: [Gramps-devel] Better Place Name Management

[Joachim B. <ma...@jo...>]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 28.02.2007, 12:15 +0100 schrieb Martin Hawlisch:
> Hi,
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> Von: Joachim Breitner <ma...@jo...>
> > Places change names during the times, and therefore Gramps has an
> > =E2=80=9Calternative place name=E2=80=9D field. But events still refer =
to the place as
> > a
> > whole, which is not correct it seems: Events should contain the place
> > name that was relevant at that time.
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> We could achieve that with one small addition: Adding a date field to the=
 locations. So historical place names could then be entered as alternate  l=
ocations having the timespan given. Reports could then choose the alternate=
 name that matches the date of the event and optionally print out the curre=
nt name.

Yupp, that=E2=80=99s what I have in mind :-)

> > Another idea that might be interesting for research might be an =E2=80=
=9Cis
> > included in=E2=80=9D attribute for places. E.g. the place =E2=80=9CPari=
s=E2=80=9D is
> > included in
> > =E2=80=9CFrance=E2=80=9D (which I use for events where I don=E2=80=99t =
know where in France
> > it
> > happened), and when searching for events in =E2=80=9CFrance=E2=80=9D I =
might
> > (optionally) also find all events in =E2=80=9CParis=E2=80=9D. Just an i=
dea, it might
> > be
> > a bad one.
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> What I would like to see here is a hierachy of place objects so that they=
 can be organized as a tree. This is what for example GeneWeb does.

It sounds good, the questions is whether this is overkill for Gramps
(after all, it is (not yet) a GIS :-)) and it=E2=80=99s users (some of whom
might not care about that), or whether it is desirable. I=E2=80=99m not sur=
e
myself about  his point :-)


Greetings,
Joachim
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