Re: [Gramps-devel] Geonames or place importing

[Richard T. <rjt...@th...>]

This might provide a good starting point:

http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/namefiles.htm

It might even be possible to offer an automatic lookup and download
facility for these files.

Richard



Jérôme wrote:
| Benny,
|
|> Jerome, could you try?
|
| I made a test (trunk) with french locations ...
| http://romjerome.ifrance.com/communes.gramps
| (I didn't use "place completion" tool yet)
|
| Some places are missing (17208 of 36000)
| http://romjerome.ifrance.com/insee.gnumeric
|
| Seems not to be the best way for a places database, no ?
| I know that most countries have less places, but this will generate too
| big database :(
|
| Maybe a flat database (csv, xml, txt) for one country (USA, be, de, fr,
| uk etc ...) loaded into an user dialog (as most other program)
|
| Also, I do not know how Laurent has generated previous XML data.
| He did it for french cities. Maybe it was data from local genealogical
| associations. But we do not have cities for other countries. What "open"
| data might be used for creating new one ?
|
|
http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Place_completion_tool_specification#View
|
|
| Benny Malengier a écrit :
|> Jerome, could you try?
|> We can host it on the wiki in a dedicted page
|>
|> With place completion tool we could add lat lon and other data
|>
|> Then we could see if we can build an import or lookup tool around it.
|>
|> Benny
|>
|> 2008/2/24, Jérôme <rom...@ya... <mailto:rom...@ya...>>:
|>
|>     Hi,
|>
|>
|>
|>      > A places database is something I personally would very much
love, but
|>      > no, nobody created that.
|>
|>
|>     There was something like that for gramps 1.0.x !!!
|>
|>     http://laurent.protois.free.fr/sciences/Gramps/
|>
|>     Not tested with latest versions, but should not be so hard to
|>     upgrade data.
|>
|>
|>     Jerome
|>
|>
|>
|>     Benny Malengier a écrit :
|>      >
|>      >
|>      > 2008/2/24, JD Liddil <jl...@gm...
|>     <mailto:jl...@gm...> <mailto:jl...@gm...
|>     <mailto:jl...@gm...>>>:
|>
|>      >
|>      >     I am new to GRAMPS an run it under windoze. I read about the
|>     Places
|>      >     completion tool and the threads on geonames. Is there another
|>     option
|>      >     for me to easily look up places or import a places list into
|>     GRAMPS.
|>      >     I'm thinking of a concept along the lines of the places
|>     database that
|>      >     I now have with Legacy 6.
|>      >
|>      >
|>      > A places database is something I personally would very much
love, but
|>      > no, nobody created that.
|>      > The easiest to convert places only from a program you have to
|>     gramps, is
|>      > to import a gedcom with all places, export to .gramps, extract
|>     and open
|>      > this xml file, and then delete all data in the .gramps that is
|>     not the
|>      > place data. This will give you a .gramps file with all places,
|>     you can
|>      > import in other databases.
|>      >
|>      > Not very ideal.
|>      > What would be nice is users providing .gramps files with
places for a
|>      > certain region, and then creating in GRAMPS a special tool to
extend
|>      > place data with data found in those .gramps files.
|>      >
|>      > Benny
|>      >
|>      >
|>      >
|>
|>      >
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