Re: New Utility for verifying GEDCOM place names

Patrice Legoux <[email protected]>
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Le mer. 21 août 2019, 06:45, mikeh via Gramps-users <
[email protected]> a écrit :

Yes.  I had tried those out but I was looking for a tool that would be
better at handling a large number of places and had strong wild card and
phonetic support.  My ancestry file has a lot of old place names where
spelling has changed slightly.


Do you try OpenRefine? It can handle as many places you want and it can
also find coordinates in Wikidata.

I've done that with 20k French places. I've exported my database using
Sqlite export, opened that exported db in OpenRefine and refined data with
Wikidata to complete places coordinates. After this I've re-imported sqlite
data in a new gramps database

I know geonames are synchronized with Wikidata but I don't know if old
places you want are in Wikidata

If you have another source to sync your places to their coordinates you
could do it with OpenRefine too i think


On Aug 20, 2019, at 9:12 PM, Sam Manzi <[email protected]> wrote:

Looks good,

Have you seen the other gazzetter Gramps addons?
.......................
GeoName gramplet downloads place information from the GeoNames gazetteer
https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Addon:GeoName
.......................
GetGOV gramplet downloads place information from the GOV gazetteer
https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Addon:GetGOV
.......................
Experimental place gazetteer (info from http://geonames.usgs.gov )
https://gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=8812
.......................
and the older

Place completion tool( that get info from
http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/ )
https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Place_completion_tool
.......................
Source code here that may help you:
https://github.com/gramps-project/addons-source, if you decide to convert
to a Gramps addon

Kind regards
Sam

On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 at 13:45, mikeh via Gramps-users <
[email protected]> wrote:


I’ve written a utility that reads in GEDCOM files, validates the locations,
and adds latitude/longitude.  It’s designed to verify large GEDCOM files
using geodata from geonames.org.

I’m curious if people would find this useful and would love feedback on the
system.  Also, I’d like to know if people think it would be useful to
convert it to an add-in for GRAMPS.  The system is in Python and uses
Sqlite3 but would require significant changes to work as a GRAMPS add in.

Features:


   - Rich place name database from geonames.org optimized for Genealogy
   including including cemeteries, historic locations, and religious locations.
   - Designed for correcting large GEDCOM files
   - Automatic matching wherever possible adds missing information such as
   missing state/province or county.
   - Standardizes placenames
   - Output is to a new GEDCOM file
   - Adds latitude/longitude
   - Wildcard search - presents a list of wildcard matches
   - Phonetic search - presents a list of phonetic matches
   - Highlights locations in the US and Canada where the event date is
   before European settlement
   - Free / Open Source


You can find further information here:

https://github.com/corb555/GeoFinder/wiki/User-Guide
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