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The {{icon|plac}} [[Gramps_3Gramps_4.4_Wiki_Manual_2_Wiki_Manual_-_Main_Window_Categories#Places_Category|Places Category View]] lists all the places in your Gramps database, and is a handy spot to make sure your places are named consistently.

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.

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 is the other names go on first region in the Alternate Locations tablist.

Some put the modern day details Data imported from older versions of Gramps (before v4.1), may contain an ''Alternate Locations'' tab. It is recommended that information in this tab is deleted and stored in either the Location ''Enclosed By'' or ''Alternative Names'' tab. When all information is deleted, and historical details under Alternate Locationsthe tab will no longer be visible. This has at least two drawbacks:

# You may not know the modern day details for Variations and different spellings of a place when entering it.# If may be recorded in the modern details change, you have to remember to update everything''Alternative Names'' tab.

Other people prefer to put === Place ''Title'' field ===The first field in the Location tab the details as they were at the time of the event, and the modern details under Alternate Locations. This also Edit Place window is generally displayed where space is not perfectlimited, such as in some graphical reports. Gramps will populate this field for you need to decide what to do if you have two different events at from the same place, but separated in time such that name and the place details differ. You would make two different names of all places then, for higher in the same placehierarchy.

=== ''Place Name'' field ===The first field in the Edit Place window is generally displayed where space is limitedHowever, such as in some graphical reports. Therefore some people like to put in here a short descriptive name. Other people prefer this field to be a repeat of all the fields in the location tab in the bottom of the window. It can be listed either from the most specific, or the least. 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 the ''== Editing Places ==[[File:Place Name'' field has everything they want, and they leave the Location tab emptyeditor 42.png|450px|thumb|right|Fig. 1. Example Edit Place dialogue]]

== The future ==Gramps provides a window in which you can edit a place: The developers have indicated that they believe Enter the handling ''Name'' and ''Type'' of places the place in the fields provided. The ''Title'' and ''ID'' fields will be populated automatically by Gramps could . The ''Code'' can be improved, but as used to store a country code or postal code. The region in which the place belongs should be recorded in the current system is adequate and there many higher priority tasks, ''Enclosed By'' tab. Every place except for countries should have at least one entry. Multiple entries are useful to record a reworking place that has been part of different administrative regions over time. The first entry in the places in Gramps is not likely list will be used to happen for some timeconstruct default place titles. Also Variations of a place name, see [[GEPS_006:_Better_Place_handling|GEPS006 Better Place handling]]such as alternative spellings, can be recorded in the ''Alternative Names'' tab. {{-}}

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