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A [[GRAMPS_GlossaryGramps_Glossary#P|Place]] in GRAMPS Gramps generally refers to where an event occurred. This is different to an Address (see for example [[Why residence event and not Address%3F]]).The [http://gramps-project.org/gramps-manual/2.2/en/ch02.html#places-view| Places View] lists all the places in your GRAMPS database, and is a handy spot to make sure your places are named consistently. == Editing Places ==GRAMPS provides a window in which you can edit a place:

The {{icon|plac}} [[Image:EditGramps_4.2_Wiki_Manual_-Place-1.png_Categories#Places_Category|Example Edit Place dialoguePlaces Category View]]lists all the places in your Gramps database, and is a handy spot to make sure your places are named consistently.

Use The summary below indicates some of the [[Place_completion_tool]] to help automate the management of your ways current Gramps users organise their places, as this allows you to edit several places in one go. It is also an easy way to determine and include latitude and longitude of cities and towns.

== Organising your places = Place hierarchy ===There are several ways you could organise your Gramps stores placesin a hierarchy. The concept Places at the top of a place in genealogy is very complex, due both to the hierarchy are usually countries. The level of detail you wish to capture, and increases the further the changes over time to place is down the name hierarchy. Places at the bottom of a placethe hierarchy represent small areas such as individual houses or burial plots. Ultimately how much The hierarchy can contain any number of this complexity you record in your database is up to you, but you will probably find it advantageous to consider your options before you have too many places in your datalevels.

The summary For example, Hobart in Australia would be stored as three places: Australia, Tasmania, and Hobart. Australia would be at the top level of the hierarchy and have a place type of ''Country''. Tasmania would be at the next level down and have a place type of ''State''. Hobart would have a place type of ''City'' and would be stored in the next level below indicates some ''State''. Any of the ways current GRAMPS users organise their these three placescould be referenced in an event.

The level of detail recorded for a place affects the number of places you have.  One option is to not include detail finer than town or city in a place, in which case the ''Street'' field is always left empty. When further detail is to be recorded for an event, it can go in a note associated with that event. This has the advantage that your places are easier to manage, and can appear more consistent in reports. A disadvantage is that you may need to include the same note text against many events, for example if they all occurred at the one address. GRAMPS In Gramps 3.0 will reduce you can have multiple notes, making copy/paste of this problem, as notes can be shared amongst eventsaddress in a note easier. You could also add the place ones to the source used for the event. Another possible disadvantage is that the place details may not be displayed in reports in the way you wish.

The other extreme is to specify as fine detail as possible, which may involve putting a lot of information into the ''Street'' field. A drawback is that you will end up with a very large number of Place entries.

A given place can change its name may be part of different regions or even countries over time. This change may be as minor as a change in street number or name, or The ''Enclosed By'' tab allows you to specify these regions along with a complete change in name of town and countrydate range. There are different ways of recording thisThe default region, but most people seem to choose one name which they list on used for constructing the Location tabplace title, and the other names go on is the Alternate Locations tab. Some put the modern day details first region in the Location tab, and historical details under Alternate Locations. This has at least two drawbacks: # You may not know the modern day details for a place when entering it.# If the modern details change, you have to remember to update everythinglist.

Other people prefer to put in the Location tab the details as they were at the time Data imported from older versions of the eventGramps (before v4.1), and the modern details under may contain an ''Alternate Locations'' tab. This also It is not perfect, as you need to decide what to do if you have two different events at the same place, but separated recommended that information in this tab is deleted and stored in time such that either the place details differ''Enclosed By'' or ''Alternative Names'' tab. Which do you put in When all information is deleted, the Locations tab? will no longer be visible.

=== Variations and different spellings of a place may be recorded in the ''Place NameAlternative Names'' field ===The first field in the Edit Place window is generally displayed where space is limited, such as in some graphical reports. Therefore some people like to put in here a short descriptive nametab.

Other people prefer this === Place ''Title'' field ===The first field to be a repeat of all the fields in the location tab Edit Place window is generally displayed where space is limited, such as in the bottom of the windowsome graphical reports. It can be listed either Gramps will populate this field for you from the most specific, or place name and the names of all places higher in the leastplace hierarchy.

However, some people like to put in here a short descriptive name. For example, for a location of ''Street'': Rundle Mall, ''City:'' Adelaide, ''State:'' South Australia, ''Country:'' Australia, ''Postal Code:'' 5000, different people would set the ''Place Name'' field to one of:

* Rundle Mall, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000, Australia* Australia, 5000, South Australia, Adelaide, Rundle Mall

Some people ensure == Editing Places ==[[File:Place editor 42.png|450px|thumb|right|Fig. 1. Example Edit Place dialogue]] Gramps provides a window in which you can edit a place: Enter the ''Place Name'' field and ''Type'' of the place in the fields provided. The ''Title'' and ''ID'' fields will be populated automatically by Gramps. The ''Code'' can be used to store a country code or postal code. The region in which the place belongs should be recorded in the ''Enclosed By'' tab. Every place except for countries should have at least one entry. Multiple entries are useful to record a place that has everything they wantbeen part of different administrative regions over time. The first entry in the list will be used to construct default place titles. Variations of a place name, and they leave such as alternative spellings, can be recorded in the Location ''Alternative Names'' tab empty. {{-}}