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====Part 2. Completion of Places ====
#The first posibility possibility is to look up in a datafile the latitude and longitude of your places. For this you must have downloaded the necessary resoursesresources, see section above. You can select with a file dialog the file you want to search, and set how this data must be parsed. The following parsing options are available:
##''GeoNames country file, city search'': use the city attribute to look for lat/lon in a GeoNames country file. This is the fastest search.
##''GeoNames country file, city localized variants search'': use the city attribute to look for lat/lon in a GeoNames country file using the localised (non-English) known names in the GeoNames file. Eg, Roma will be found with this option (as Roma is the Italian local variant of the English name Rome)
##''GeoNames country file, title begin, general search'': Use the start of the title field to search in a GeoNames file. With start it is meant everything before a comma:''',''' . This allows to find landmarks, squares, ... . Eg, if the title of your place is: ''Piazza Navona, Rome'', using this search will find you the latitude and longitude of this famous square in Rome.
##''GeoNames USA state file, city search'': Looking for places in the USA file is almost worthless: it takes a long time and every name exists several times. Hence, it is worthwile worthwhile to use state by state. If a USA state file is selected for doing a search, you '''must''' select this option. The city attribute is used for the search.
##''GNS Geonet country file, city search'': use the city attribute to search in a GNS file (slower than GeoNames search!).
##''GNS Geonet country file, title begin search'': use the start of the title of a place to search in a GNS file. With start everything appearing before the first comma is meant.
