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Addon:PlaceCoordinatesGramplet

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Additional geography view with a context menu
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{{man warn|Internet Access required|The {{man label|Place Coordinates}} Gramplet reads geolocations from the internet.}}
[[File:AddonPlaceCoordinatesGramplet-detached-example-51.png|thumb|right|450px|Addon Place Coordinates Gramplet - detached]]
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}} ('''PlaceCoordinateGeoView''') with a context menu that enables:
1. *Adding cities as new places 2. *Adding addresses as new places 3. *Linking existing places with geolocations
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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.* Internet Access required
[https==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: wget http://githubarchive.ubuntu.com/GNOMEubuntu/pool/main/g/geocode-glib GeocodeGlib/geocodelibgeocode-glib0_3.25.4.1-4ubuntu0.18.04.1_amd64.deb apt-get install ./libgeocode-glib0_3.25.4.1-glib] is a convenience library for the geocoding (finding longitude, and latitude from an address) and reverse geocoding (finding an address from coordinates)4ubuntu0.18.04.1_amd64. It uses [deb* Help button goes to https://wiki.openstreetmapgramps-project.org/wiki/Nominatim Nominatim] service (from openstreetmapindex.org ) to achieve that. It also caches (reversephp?title=Gramps_{{man version}}_Wiki_Manual_-)geocoding requests for faster results and to avoid unnecessary server load. =Issues=_Gramplets#Place_Coordinates instead of this page
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