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# to save on XHTML
# to work with "replace" function on your text editor (or grep, sed, awk)
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Revision as of 08:07, 6 October 2015

Place database used by Gramps

If you want to use your own database, you don't care of licence to use, but what about to re-use existing databases ? See Copyrights.

To create our place database

Why not creating our own place database ? Users sharing place information. It is possible on Gramps 3.0.1 and later :

  1. Go on place View
  2. Edit menu -> Column editor
  3. Check Place Name, Zip, City, County, Country, Latitude, Longitude, Church Parish columns
  4. go on Family Trees menu -> Export View ...

To add a licence to use and to share it

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To use existing place structure and data into Gramps

To re-use your data stored in an other flat database

  1. having a place database (txt, csv, xml, bd etc ...) which could be used on open-sources projects (licence)
  2. to import data into gnumeric (save data on XML gnumeric)
  3. to assign one format per column (font size="8" for the first column, font size="10" for the second, etc ...)
  4. to order by name
  5. to create a new column (1 on the first line, 2 on the second, 3 on the third) then to use automatic filing from the first line to the last one with data.
  6. to save on XHTML
  7. On this new XHTML file, to work with "replace" function into your text editor (or grep, sed, awk)


With XML flat database, to generate a new XML by using XSLT.

ex: if you don't use autofiling for number, (<xsl:number value="postion()" format="1."/>) generates ordered id for your place object.

Geonames

Geonames licensed their data under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, provided "as is" without warranty or any representation of accuracy, timeliness or completeness.

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 * to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
 * to Remix — to adapt the work
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Database management

  • Place completion tool brings the places in your Gramps database in accordance with the Gramps requirements: batch add country, county; look-up latitude-longitude; set description (title); ...

DO NOT BETA TEST WITH YOUR RESEARCH DATA. EXPORT DATA FIRST TO HAVE A BACKUP, THEN RUN THE TOOL

ONLY for United States of America, Canada, France, Sweden.