Just been catching up on the new developments for Geographic view and wondered whether any improvements to the markers have been envisaged. For example, configuring them to link into the genealogical symbol capability. When multiple event types are displayed the red pin markers are very confusing. …

Just had a peep, but it seems I can’t see a people event filter in the places view. How can I use filters to generate a list equivalent to the Quickview list of person/family events and add place co-ordinates to the data set?

In the Places view, you can create a custom filter based on the rule called “Places of events matching the <event filter>” (under the category “General filters”). But first, you need to go into the Events view and create a custom filter to select the events that you want, so that you can then refer…

Another option would be to create a feature request to add the place coordinates to the Events view, so that you could just filter and export from there.

The drawback of exporting from Events is that you’d have duplicates. The Geography view collates events in each place for the filtered group of people. You’d need a ‘unique’ values list of places (which also have a valid Lat/Long) so that the count of Markers would match the count of exported recor…

Yup, that’s about it. In the meantime I think I’ve twigged the filters to give me two csv files; people/event/places and linked places. I can combine the two files and import into myMaps for display. Not exactly automated, but will ease creating the data set. Presumably, assembling data sets for c…

[image] emyoulation: It is unfortunate that both are those markers are actually magnifying glass icons (zoom in & zoom out) as alternatives to color-coded pushpins. So the map layer isn’t rendering glyphs, it is rendering objects Gramps user and commercial artist Barrie Phelan ( @bjpcorp ) cr…

[image] emyoulation: The magnifying glass (“-”, “+”, “x”) markers don’t convey much meaning. I have to keep looking at tooltips to remember “-” is burial instead of “x” which is Marriage? I never seen there are that differences ! And what are green and red pins?

[image] PLegoux: And what are green and red pins? From the message much earlier in the thread: [image] SNoiraud: Red markers are for non free maps (google maps, …) Green markers are for free maps (openstreetmap, …) They are for generic (not birth, death, marriage, burial) or Place Ev…

Very strange the reason for this red/green distinction. A functional distinction would be much more relevant (grouped, ungrouped for example)

[image] PLegoux: Very strange the reason for this red/green distinction. I believe that the reason the pins are colored this way is to avoid copyright infringement. A Gramps user screen-capturing the view to share on the net will know that they should not publish Red Pin maps. ('cuz Microsoft…

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SNoiraud October 23, 2022, 6:59pm 22

When I created the geography views, gramps was only used on Linux.
It is a free project. I could have removed the non free maps, but at the beginning, OSM maps were not already complete for many countries. This is the reason.

What do/did you find to be the most complicated parts of Gramps?

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