After having an issue with the addon on my other machine with LMDE 6 Cinnamon I tried the PlaceCoordinatesGramplet on my notebook, adding it to the bottom bar of the Places Category, as recommended.
I tried several locations that haven’t yet coordinates. Instead, Gramps freezes (I have to restart it) or gives this Error:
The location was not found. g-io-error-quark: Internal Server Error (0)
I couldn’t find any hints how to solve, neither in Addon page nor with internet research.
I tried it here too, with similar results, and found no logging when I started Gramps from terminal. The error is quite clear though, if you know what the tool does, and that is documented on the wiki, where it says that the add-on uses the Nominatim service, provided by openstreetmap.org, a.k.a. OSM.
The error suggests that the sever has a problem, and without extra logging, it’s not clear what’s causing that. It might be a simple problem on their side, but it might also be triggered by a command that Gramps sends. We’ve seen other services that changed, and this add-on is pretty old.
There is an easy remedy though, and that’s forgetting the whole thing, and some other place tools too, and use the Place Cleanup instead:
It works quite well, although it might add more information than you really want. It’s best run from the side bar, and you need a geonames account for it. The German name is a bit weird: Orte Bereinigung.
Bonus: It makes life easier on LMDE 6 too. I just put that on my laptop, next to Mint 21.3 MATE, and it feels faster. And without the add-on, there is no dependency on that GeoCodeLib either.
Good morning Enno!
Sorry, I couldn’t understand all in your last comment.
As I used the new addon on LMDE 6: Yes, it is easier.
But then? What did you put “next to Mint 21.3”?
Without what addon?
Please explain.
What I mean is, that I now have LMDE 6, Mint 21.3 MATE, and Windows 10 on my laptop, where I first avoided LMDE 6, because of the GeoCodeGlib problems.
I don’t need to avoid that anymore, because the Place Coordinates Gramplet seemed to be the only add-on that needed that, and I always use the Place Cleanup Gramplet, so I don’t need the former anyway. And if I deactivate that, the GeoCodeGlib warnings are gone too.
LMDE 6 is more modern than Mint 21.3, because it’s based on Debian 12 a.k.a. Bookworm, and it’s faster too, even faster than Mint 21.3 MATE, and on my laptop, that’s important.