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→Old place names
If you are going to add Google maps with references from, say, '''geonames.org''', then the old names for places won't be found. The easiest solution to this is to add the old names as notes, but map them with their current names.
However, you should be able to hand-edit. For example, say you know a small place, now vanished from the face of the earth, outside Vienna where someone was born. You study maps, derive the co-ordinates to be 48.055026 16.513064 (it's just a ploughed paddock). You should be able to give the proper name for the place that is long-gone, and add the co-ordinates yourself.
===Google Group===
There is an interesting forum at http://groups.google.com.au/group/geonames?lnk=sg