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GEPS 006: Better Place handling

681 bytes added, 08:16, 17 September 2010
Improve data entry in the Place editor
=== Improve data entry in the Place editor ===
We could use drop-down lists in the place editor to allow the user to select values for each of the hierarchical fields. The data could come from data already in the database or we could consider building up a gazetteer for Gramps.
 
Suggestion (BM):
* Country is a GrampsType field, with known countries predefined. This gives us translated countries.
* based on country, the normal divisions are set bold. All divisions can be entered however
* Translation of labels is based on country, with fallback to the general. A Tier will have different translations depending on the country it is in. However, we must be carefull not to translate everything before Gramps can start up. Eg, we define, COUNTY= _('County), USA = (STATE, None, COUNTY, ...), where None is used to indicate to use the general name of the field, and this long list of countries is not kept in memory but constructed when a county is needed.
The place editor could be made clearer if the hierarchical fields were placed together in the editor window.

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