Re: [Gramps-devel] GEP006: Hierarchical places

[Enno B. <enn...@gm...>]

Tony,
> I feel this is a red-herring Enno. I certainly never had this problem 
> when I introduced time-dependent parents into place hierarchies in 
> STEMMA.
>
> Once a place has been identified then it can reference an external 
> definition of the place via some ID (e.g. URI or UUID). It is that 
> external definition that would define the place's parentage, type, 
> extent/boundaries, alternative names, and even a narrative history. 
> This is the principle that would allow a Place Authority to exist one day.
If the place authority is used, I agree, but as for now it looks like 
the place database will be an off-line thing, like everything else in 
Gramps, so there is no real shared ID here.

You may recall that I referred to WeRelate.org earlier in this thread. I 
did that for a reason, knowing that Dallan has a place authority there, 
which itself relies on Getty and the LDS. And I think it's open source, 
so that in theory, it can be used for Gramps.

regards,

Enno