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The {{man label|Place Coordinates}} Gramplet simplifies setting the coordinates of a place and also provides an additional geography view.
==Usage==
Add the Gramplet to the bottom bar of the Places Category.
==Options==
===Searching geolocations of places from the DB===
[[File:SearchPlace.gif|thumb|right|450px|Place Coordinate Gramplet]]
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===Searching place names from geolocations from the DB===
[[File:SearchLocation.gif|thumb|right|450px|Place Coordinate Gramplet]]
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===Additional geography view with a context menu===
[[File:MapClick4.gif|thumb|right|450px|Place Coordinate Gramplet]]
It also provides a geography view {{man label|Place Coordinate Gramplet View}} with a context menu that enables:
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==Prerequisites==
Requires GeocodeGlib be installed.
[https://github.com/GNOME/geocode-glib GeocodeGlib/geocode-glib] is a convenience library for the geocoding (finding longitude, and latitude from an address) and reverse geocoding (finding an address from coordinates). It uses [https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim Nominatim] service (from openstreetmap.org ) to achieve that. It also caches (reverse-)geocoding requests for faster results and to avoid unnecessary server load.
==Issues==
* On linux an older version of libgeocode-glib0 (3.18.2) causes segmentation faults when pressing the search button.
** Please update to a newer version of that library. For example:
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