I like to visualize my entire family tree with the Hourglass Graph Report. At a glance I can quickly locate a relative. It is very interesting that it also appends the date of birth and death.
But I miss that it also adds the places. When I add an event, such as birth or death, I usually use this pattern: “Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom”. But since that indication of place is too long. I think it would be a better idea to extract only the first part (up to the first comma) and optionally be able to add the country as well. Instead it would look like this:
Also the Descendant Tree Report, has an option in the Advanced tab that allows you to add a pairs of strings separated by a slash ‘/’ to specify what you want to replace and what you want to replace it eg: The United States of America/USA ( replaces the long form with the short form!)
In Gramps there is the concept of Populated Place. It allows you to extract just portions of the place hierarchy. My normal setting is to display Number Street omitting the comma in the address and I named that setting “Number Street”. But for Graphs views, I use my setting which I named… “Populated Place”.
I am in the United States so for my Populated Place setting I set the format for the place Levels to p0,-2. This displays the name of the City, Town, Hamlet or Village and the name of the State. It omits any name of a hospital in the city, the County in the state and the Country information. In your example it would display “Stratford on Avon, England”. To just display the name of the city just use p0.
Some reports and I know the Graph View addon allow you to set a different place format other that your default setting in Preferences. If not, you would need to set the “City” format in Preferences before going to the view or creating the report.
Please clarify which report you are actually using. My Hourglass Graph report does not display place information.
My post was about whether adding the place details to Hourglass graph would be an implementable feature? It seems to me that the place of birth/death is very informative data.
Look at the Graph View addon. it is very configurable, already does the place information, is a view so can be used within Gramps and the people and families can be edited. When needed, it has a Printer icon to export the view to an SVG file.
