GEPS 006: Better Place handling

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Changes already implemented

A new hierarchical place view was introduced in version 3.2 of Gramps.

The place object was left unchanged, but the existing location fields were interpreted as a hierarchy. The location fields are as follows:

  • Country
  • State
  • County
  • City
  • Street

The new view displays Country, State and County as a tree.

Proposed changes

  1. Integration with online map tools.
  2. Good definition of place and address/residence event in Gramps.
  3. Alternative place with a date span? Define one ideal way of working with alternative place.

Motivation

Time and again users pose questions on improving the place structure of Gramps. This GEPS is about defining a new improved way of handling place, keeping backward compatibility with GEDCOM/present Gramps.

Many things are also not well designed, in that Gramps allows the user to do as he likes, without guiding the user to a good way of storing place data. (this statement is disputed, see discussion)

Some ideas

References

Some relevant bug tracker entries:

  • 1862 Place Guessing Feature Request
  • 2196 Some changes to the Places viewer would be helpful
  • 2311 Implement a place database ...