Place database

Place database used by GRAMPS

If you want to use your own database, you don't care of licence to use, but what about to re-use existing databases ? See Copyrights.

To create our place database

Why not creating our own place database ? Users sharing their place informations. It is possible on GRAMPS 3.0.1 and later :

1. Go on place View
2. Edit menu -> Column editor
3. Check Place Name, Zip, City, County, Country, Latitude, Longitude, Church Parish columns
4. go on Family Trees menu -> Export View ...

To add a licence to use and to share it

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or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover
Texts.  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU
Free Documentation License".

To use existing place structure and data

Geonames licensed their under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, provided "as is" without warranty or any representation of accuracy, timeliness or completeness. Data sounds good for computer (many codes) and could be used for generating a database :

1. having a place database (txt, csv, xml, bd etc ...) which could be used on open-sources projects (licence)
2. to import data into gnumeric (save data on XML gnumeric)
3. to assign one format per column (font size="8" for the first column, font size="10" for the second, etc ...)
4. to order by name
5. to create a new column (1 on the first line, 2 on the second, 3 on the third) then to use automatic filing from the first line to the last one with data.
6. to save on XHTML
7. to work with "remplace" function on your text editor (or grep, sed, awk)
8. with XML flat database, I generate a new XML by using XSLT

ex: if you don't use autofiling for number, (<xsl:number value="postion()" format="1."/>) generates ordered id for your place object.