Re: [Gramps-devel] user defined place format in text reports

[Nick H. <ni...@gr...>]

On 02/04/17 19:03, Enno Borgsteede wrote:
>> A quick place entry dialog that creates all the places for a location
>> would be useful.
>>
> Yes indeed, and one further wish would be that it does look-ups, so that
> any existing place will be used, instead of being created new. So, if
> there is an entry dialog that has room for street, city/town/village,
> county/municipality, province/state, and country, i.e. the most used
> fields, it would be nice if it does not create entries.
>
> This is where many other programs, and sites, are sort of ahead of
> Gramps, because they verify locations against a gazetteer. They all
> store them in a comma separated list, and that is what we also get when
> importing a GEDCOM file from those.
>
> Most of these programs are English, but I know that the My Heritage
> Family Tree Builder does it too, for more than 40 languages.
>
> I think that most of this can be done with the existing data model, or
> maybe an external gazetteer, meaning some table outside the tree with
> geonames data.

There are two feature requests related to this:

8812: Experimental place gazetteer

https://gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=8812

8974: Import place hierarchies from the GOV database

https://gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=8974

We seem to be heading in the direction of the GOV gazetteer. Gary 
Griffin and others have been progressing this.  The experimental GetGOV 
gramplet is now in the third-party addons repository.


Nick.