# Does Gramps export attributes to GedCom?

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**Created:** [July 18, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/does-gramps-export-attributes-to-gedcom/7970 "2025-07-18T21:08:56Z")\
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> [@hartenthaler](#):
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> I’m not sure if I understood your first point. The map is of interest for a place or a region. You found the map on a web page. So you define a source with the link to the map. This source does not proof anything, but helps in understanding where something happened. Is this correct? It makes sense to me. But then you are saying that the map is linked to the location. But how can you establish such a link without a source citation?

This source simply references where this map came from. I usually don’t find a citation necessary; I just attach the map to the place record and that’s enough. Its references are sufficient. Sometimes I might only take a piece of the map and then I might add a citation explaining why there’s only a portion of the map.

> [@hartenthaler](#):
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> You said that you are adding a ToDo to such a unlinked source. I would prefer the other way around: add a unlinked ToDo record and link to a source (and an archive) in the ToDo.

I attach the note to the object, here the source, on which I want to work. I only link to this object when it is only a working reference.

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