Re: [Gramps-users] Coordinates of *large* Places?

[jecxz112 <jec...@te...>]

On 7/30/2015 9:17 AM, Serge Noiraud wrote:
> Le 30/07/2015 17:11, Ron Johnson a écrit :
>> On 07/30/2015 06:18 AM, Serge Noiraud wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I emit again this mail already sent at 10:31 but not received on the mailing list.
>>>
>>> Le 29/07/2015 01:47, Ron Johnson a écrit :
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone enter the latitude/longitude of anything but the smallest
>>>> countries and (US) states?  ISTM that "the coordinates of California" (or
>>>> even modest sized states) just really don't have any practical meaning...
>>> I think from gramps 4.2 we have another solution for that.
>>> You may assign a kml file to a place.
Anyone know of any good open-source/free KML generator apps, 
other than GoogleEarth?
Arnold
>>> If one event of one person is associated with this place, you'll see this on the map for this person.
>> I don't see how that solves the problem.
> That doesn't solve the problem, but you have another way to show for example california on the map.
> In this case, you can affect the coordinates to the capital sacramento. This is how I would do that.
>>> Actually, only the map related to one person uses kml files.
>>> The difficulty is to have kml files for one large place.
>> All the named places points in a region?
> Not at all. One place has only a latitude, a longitude and an altitude. The altitude is unused in gramps
>
> Serge
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