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bobc
Posted Monday, March 12, 2012 - Post #29914
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I am somewhat confused by the use of Hierarchical places and the display on Google Maps.

I have created a place - "St Bartholomews Church"
Parent is "Great Harwood"

The Place "Great Harwood" is shown as County - "Lancashire"

When I generate a website and click on a reference to "Great Harwood" it shows me the town correctly in the resultant Google Map.

If I click on a reference to "St Bartholomews Church", however it displays a "generic" location for "Lancashire"

The only way I can get a sensible display for a lot of these locations is to manually input Lat & Long. co-ordinates.

Am I missing a trick - I'd be happy if it would use the Town, rather than the County for the map location if I hadn't provided Lat/Long co-ordinates.

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Posted Monday, March 12, 2012 - Post #29915
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If the lat/long isn't explicitly entered, then you're reliant on Google's geocoding of place names which can give unexpected results (like displaying Washington in the US, rather than the one in Co Durham.)

I decided the only way to get reliable maps was to manually input the lat/long for every location, which was very very tedious given the number of places in the tree (http://familytrees.genopro.com/harrycaper/FamilyTree/places.htm)

With respect to hierarchical places, I've noticed any detail you put against the parent place will be inherited by the children unless explicitly defined at the child level.

If you set Lat/Long on "Great Harwood" this will be inherited by "St Bartholomews Church".
However if you leave lat/long blank on "Great Harwood" but set Lat/Long for "Lancashire" then "St Bartholomews Church" will take lat/long from "Lancashire".
Perhaps this is why you're seeing what you're seeing?

One bright note...  if you change the place name to "St Bartholomew's & St John's C Of E Church" you get the right map - it seems that google has the church geocoded under this name.
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Posted Monday, March 12, 2012 - Post #29916
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Thanks for that - the idea of using the combined name for the church rather upsets the historical context in which it is used - the name St Bartholomews goes back hundreds of years; St Johns was only created in the 20th century and knocked down a couple of years ago.   Actually Google seems to have it wrong - the Church is St Bartholomews, it's the Parish that has the combined name of St Bartholomew and St John.

It looks like I do need to use Lat/Long co-ordinates to have any assurance of places appearing on the right continent !

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Posted Monday, March 12, 2012 - Post #29918
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I'm in full agreement about the value of historical context regarding the church name. Good luck with your tree Smile


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