Can GIS help in my research?

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A bit off topic but still related to Gramps.

I’m looking for a dataset for QGIS (v3.44) that contains the place names of Polish cities, with two layers: a) German city name and b) Polish city name.
Does anyone happen to know of such a dataset?

Thanks a lot.

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I know I’m not really answering your question :sweat_smile: but just to be sure: do you know

GOV even has a SOAP API – with a bit of Python vibe coding, you could probably turn it into a Shapefile… OHM would likely be similar via the Overpass API.

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Try OpenHistoricalMap. You can download map data as OSM/OHM and use it directly in GIS tools.

And it might even be that there is an API plugin for QGIS that can download maps and map data directly. Something like an OSM downloader or an Overpass API plugin.

For example: QuickOSM — QGIS Python Plugins Repository

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Jesper Zedlitz once demonstrated how to link QGIS with GOV. However, I couldn’t quickly find it on discourse.genealogy.net. GOV contains German and Polish place names.

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Use GOV and manually enter the data into the locations in Gramps. There is also a GOV plugin, but it’s best to test it in a separate family tree, as it can corrupt your existing data.

For the rest, look it up in the Wikipedia entry for the locality, as GOV entries usually only start from 1800.

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@DavidMStraub Thanks for the tip. I’ll check it out.

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@StoltHD I have already the QuickOSM plugin installed and using it. Thx.