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==Place database used by Gramps==
If you want to use your own database, you don't care of licence about the license to use, but what about to when you re-use an existing databases database
See [[GRAMPS:Copyrights|Copyrights]].
==To create our place database==
Why not creating create our own place database ? Users sharing place information. It is possible on Gramps 3.0.1 and later :
#Go on place View
#Edit menu -> Column editor
#Check Place Name, Zip, City, County, Country, Latitude, Longitude, Church Parish columns
#go on to menu {{man menu|Family Trees menu -> [[Gramps_{{man version}}_Wiki_Manual_-_Settings#Export_View|Export View ...]]}}
===To add a licence license to use and to share it===
Copyright (c) YEAR YOUR NAME.
Free Documentation License".
[[Image:Heckert_GNU_white.png|right]]{{-}}
==To use existing place structure and data into Gramps==
* Data to gramps XML
Having a place database (txt, csv, xml, bd etc ...) which could be used on open-sources projects (licencelicense)
Either to import data into gnumeric (save data on XML gnumeric), see XML to gramps XML, or:
ex: if you don't use autofiling for number, (''<xsl:number value="postion()" format="1."/>'') generates ordered id for your place object.
 
* Gramps csv
 
Since [[Template:Releases/4.2.1|Gramps 4.2.1]], [[Gramps_{{man version}}_Wiki_Manual_-_Manage_Family_Trees:_CSV_Import_and_Export|CSV import/export]] provides a better place handling.
===Geonames===
*[[Place_completion_tool|Addon:Place completion tool]] brings the places in your Gramps database in accordance with the Gramps requirements: batch add country, county; look-up latitude-longitude; set description (title); ...'''{{man warn|DO NOT BETA TEST WITH YOUR RESEARCH DATA. |EXPORT DATA FIRST TO HAVE A BACKUP, THEN RUN THE TOOL'''}}
* [[Gramps_4.1_Wiki_Manual_-_Tools#Addon:Extract_Place_Data_from_a_Place_Title|Extract Place Data from a Place Title...]] (Tools-->Database was formerly a builtin ''Family Tree Processing'' tool. It was rebuilt as a third-->) party plugin after the 4.2.8 version Gramps. It attempts to extract city and state/province from a place title.''{{man warn|Parsing support is limited|ONLY for United States of America, Canada, France, Sweden.''}}
[[Category:Places]]
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