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=== Integration with online map tools ===
Which online map tools? - NH
* Openstreetmap, we need free data in a free application. GeoView already allows a view based on places, also to set lat/lon
=== Good definition of place and address/residence event in Gramps ===
* For UK data, an extra Locality field between City and Street would be useful.
* For Dutch data, an extra Municipality field between County and City would be useful. (Feature Request 4231)
* Japanese use block names, instead of streetnames: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system]
We could re-define each field for each country, or we could try to keep each field maintaining similar data. I think that I prefer adding a couple of extra fields.This is less complex than a list structure with definable number of tiers (less complex to program, but also less complex to use by the user)
{| {{Prettytable}}
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! Existing !! New structure!! General Name!! USA !! UK !! France !! Netherlands!! Germany
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| State || Tier 1 || Region || State || Not Used || Region || StateNot Used || Bundesländer
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| County || Tier 2 || District || County || County || Department || Province|| District
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| New field 1 City || Not Used Tier 3 || Not Used City/Municipality || City || Not Used City || City || Municipality/City || City
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| City / || Tier 4 || Locality || Locality || City Locality|| City Locality|| City /community/hamlet || CityOrtsteil
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| New field 2 Street || Not Used Tier 5 || Locality || Not Used || Not UsedStreet |-| Street || Street || Street || Street || Street
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Defenitions:* '''Tier 3 ''': level of division of a country with a mayor.* ''' Tier 4 ''': The locality people identify themself with. Can be a hamlet, the city itself, a borough, ...* ''' Tier 1 & 2''': Between a country an the smallest administrative section, we allow for two levels.* ''' Tier 5''': Street or block, so the lowest division needed for postal information. We would need a country table. This would hold the field definitions for each country including the field names, 'not used' flags, and which fields should be used in the place tree view. Suggestion (BM)* we should not work with 'not used' flags. Eg, some people in Wales might want to enter it. A not used flag would make it impossible. In the USA, people from Clairemont [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clairemont,_San_Diego,_California] might like to indicate that, however it is a neighbourhood. Instead I would suggest perhaps a address format default. For UK this would be I suppose: country County ZIP Localicty - City street: for Belgium this format would be Country ZIP Locality (City) street: with a format field and people seeing this format, they will understand how they are supposed to enter the place information (note that if Locality equals city it obviously must not be repeated.
This data could then be used to dynamically create fields in the place editor, place filter and place tree view.
