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A tool to bring the places in your GRAMPS Gramps database in accordance with the GRAMPS Gramps requirements: batch add country, county; look-up latitude-longitude; set description (title); ...
There are versions for 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4.x, as well as an old version that works with GRAMPS Gramps version 3.0.x or 2.2.5+ ! [[Place_completion_tool#Download|Download]].
== Place Completion tool ==
The general aims are:
*Place/Location is a newer concept in GRAMPSGramps. Many older databases only have a Place title field which is a descriptive text containing city, state, country. This should be parsed to insert the values in the correct attribute fields.
*Latitude and longitude are important to show data on a map. However, doing a look-up of this data on the internet is slow and time consuming. The tool allows to search in the free resources on the net.
*Setting of an attribute of a set of places in one go.
== Design specification ==
See [[Place completion tool specification]]
Place/Location is a newer concept in GRAMPSGramps. Many older databases only have a Place title field which is a descriptive text containing city, state, country. To distribute these values into the correct attribute fields, see Parse Title Details below
== Manual ==
###All in degree notation: use the classical degree notation with degree, minutes and seconds.
###All in decimal notation: use the decimal system to denote lat/lon.
###Correct -50° in 50°S: a much seen error is to use - for the classical degree notation, which is wrong, and which GRAMPS Gramps will not be able to interpret. With this option this error is looked for and corrected.
# A third option is to set attributes of all selected places. You can set the country, state, county, parish, zip/postal code and city attributes of all places in one sweep.
====Part 3. Overview of the results ====
After having entered all data in Part 1 and 2, you click find for GRAMPS Gramps to search all changes that will occur. This part of the dialog shows all changes that will occur.
[[Image:place_completion_tool_results.png]]
MemoryError</nowiki>
The tool has to load the datafile for latitude/longitude searching into memory. For large files like USA.txt, this might be impossible if you have limited memory. You can try to close as many programs running at together with GRAMPSGramps, and try the tool again.