Geographical location record

Geographical location records are elements of the single location directory, where each location has its coordinates. When you define a location for event/fact in person and family record, you can do this without referring to the location directory. But if you want to be able to see the location on geographical maps in the future, you have to have to add a location record to the location directory—find a settlement on Google Maps and bind the location's coordinates.

You can add text notes or multimedia objects (for example, a photo) to a geographical location.

To assign coordinates to a location do the following:

  1. Enter the locations' exact name or one of the possible names to the "Name" field (it is advisable to specify the modern name, because Google Maps knows nothing about historical names of settlements).
  2. Click the "Search" button. GEDKeeper will connect with Google Maps and search for the location in Google's databases.
  3. When you see the location you require in the "Search coordinates" list, you can click the "Use coordinates" button to assign latitude and longitude of the found location to the target one. Alternatively, you can click "Use name" to assign Google Map's name of the location or define the name yourself.
  4. When the "Search coordinates" list does not have a matching location, you have to change the location name and search again. Repeat this until you find a required location.
  5. If you still cannot find a matching result, you should assign latitude and longitude of the necessary location yourself—or find the nearest location to the required one, using the steps above, and use that location.

The "Show" button opens Google Maps at the specified location.

There is a uniting table on the "Locations" tab of the main working window, which includes all locations available in the database. A location summary to the right of the table shows all events, connected to persons and families, that refer to the selected location.


See also: Event/fact, Note, Multimedia, Map.