From: Benny M. <ben...@gm...> - 2013-02-18 09:22:16
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2013/2/17 Nick Hall <nic...@ho...> > I got the poor results using GeoNames data. You can download a GB.zip > file from: > > http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/ > > I downloaded the GNS Geonet file, but it didn't match anything. The data > looks reasonable, so i would expect the the regular expression used for > matching is not quite right. I'll have a look at the code if I have time. > The regex was based on the files as they looked like some years ago. Every small change since will cause problems. If you add a new regex, rename the old one to "blablabla- pre 2011 version", as people might have downloaded the set and use it since. Benny > > Nick. > > > > On 16/02/13 13:19, b4m wrote: > > Many thanks for your replies, Nick and Doug. However, what you seem to be > saying (if I understand you correctly) is that the place completion tool > extracted some lat/long data from the database but you found that the > lat/long it had supplied was not accurate enough to be useful to you. My > problem is that the tool is not extracting ANY data, and I wonder what I am > doing wrong. > > I have used custom filters to help me fill in the town, county, postcode > and country details (because my GEDCOM import only supplies location data > as a text string in the Description field (thanks a bunch, Ancestry!)), so > the necessary information should be present for it to use for its Lat/Long > lookup, but it doesn't do anything. > > On 16 February 2013 13:26, doug <do...@o2...> wrote: > >> On 15/02/13 23:03, Nick Hall wrote: >> > I tried to use the Place Completion Tool to add latitude and >> > longitude to UK places, but got very poor results. I ended >> > up adding the co-ordinates manually. >> > >> > Nick >> >> Likewise. In most cases the database localised the place >> rather poorly when checked against its situation on a >> reasonably detailed map on, say, Google Map. >> Where I found Place Completion Tool *really* useful was in >> parsing Place Titles from IGI records. >> >> Doug >> >> >> >> > >> > On 15/02/13 15:07, b4m wrote: >> >> I am interested in applying latitude and longitude >> >> coordinates to my Location data. >> >> <snip> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel - in partnership with Geeknet, >> is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly >> thought >> leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials, tech docs, >> whitepapers, evaluation guides, and opinion stories. Check out the most >> recent posts - join the conversation now. >> http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Gramps-users mailing list >> Gra...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel - in partnership with Geeknet, > is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought > leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials, tech docs, > whitepapers, evaluation guides, and opinion stories. Check out the most > recent posts - join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gramps-users mailing lis...@li...https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel - in partnership with Geeknet, > is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly > thought > leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials, tech docs, > whitepapers, evaluation guides, and opinion stories. Check out the most > recent posts - join the conversation now. > http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ > _______________________________________________ > Gramps-users mailing list > Gra...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users > > |