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A [[GRAMPS_Glossary#P|Place]] in Gramps generally refers to where an event occurred. This is different to an Address (see for example [[Why residence event and not Address%3F]]).

The [http://gramps-project.org/gramps-manual/2.2/en/ch02.html#places-view| Places View] lists all the places in your Gramps database, and is a handy spot to make sure your places are named consistently.

Gramps provides a window in which you can edit a place:

The summary below indicates some of the ways current Gramps users organise their places.

The level of detail recorded for a place affects the number of places you have. One option is to not include detail finer than town or city in a place, in which case the ''Street'' field is always left empty. When further detail is to be recorded for an event, it can go in a note associated with that event. This has the advantage that your places are easier to manage, and can appear more consistent in reports. A disadvantage is that you may need to include the same note text against many events, for example if they all occurred at the one address.

In Gramps 3.0 you can have multiple notes, making copy/paste of this address in a note easier. You could also add the place ones to the source used for the event. Another possible disadvantage is that the place details may not be displayed in reports in the way you wish.

No matter which approach you take, you will probably end up with some place entries more general that others. For example, you may well end up with a place ''Australia'', and another ''Tasmania, Australia'', and another ''Hobart, Tasmania, Australia''.

A given place can change its name over time. This change may be as minor as a change in street number or name, or a complete change in name of town and country. There are different ways of recording this, but most people seem to choose one name which they list on the Location tab, and the other names go on the Alternate Locations tab.

Other people prefer to put in the Location tab the details as they were at the time of the event, and the modern details under Alternate Locations. This also is not perfect, as you need to decide what to do if you have two different events at the same place, but separated in time such that the place details differ. You would make two different places then, for the same place.

The first field in the Edit Place window is generally displayed where space is limited, such as in some graphical reports. Therefore some people like to put in here a short descriptive name.

Some people ensure the ''Place Name'' field has everything they want, and they leave the Location tab empty.

The developers have indicated that they believe the handling of places in Gramps could be improved, but as the current system is adequate and there many higher priority tasks, a reworking of the places in GRAMPS is not likely to happen for some time. Also, see [[GEPS_006:_Better_Place_handling|GEPS006 Better Place handling]].