{"id":65,"date":"2008-09-02T12:34:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T19:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/?p=65"},"modified":"2008-09-02T12:34:22","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T19:34:22","slug":"rootsmagic-4-unwrapped-places-and-geocoding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"RootsMagic 4 Unwrapped &#8211; Places and Geocoding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever been entering a place and wished you knew what county, province, state or country the place was in?\u00a0 RootsMagic 4 now provides a worldwide place database with 3.5 million places in it.\u00a0 Just pop up the place search and enter what you know about the place and RootsMagic will display matching places.\u00a0 Select a place and click OK and RootsMagic will paste the fully standardized place into the place field for you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/rm4placesearch.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-68\" title=\"Place Search\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/rm4placesearch.png\" alt=\"Place Search\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But what if you don&#8217;t want a full &#8220;standardized&#8221; place (like if you have an historical place name)?\u00a0 When you edit a place from the master place list, you can enter the place 1) the way you want it normally displayed, 2) as a standardized place, and 3) as an abbreviated version of the place.\u00a0 Of course the standardized and abbreviated places are both optional.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/rm4editplace.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-66\" title=\"Edit Place\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/rm4editplace.png\" alt=\"Edit Place\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing a lot of you noticed the &#8220;GeoCode&#8221; button on the Edit Place screen above.\u00a0 Clicking that button in RootsMagic 4 will geocode your place for you.\u00a0 Geocode just means that RootsMagic will check its 3.5 million place name database to find a match for your place, and insert the latitude, longitude, and standardized place name for you.\u00a0 Now of course we won&#8217;t make you geocode your database one place at a time.\u00a0 RootsMagic 4 can also geocode your entire database, and let you hand pick the places that are ambiguous.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, RootsMagic 4 offers a gazetteer on the tools menu to look up any place in the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/rm4gazetteer.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-67\" title=\"Gazetteer\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/rm4gazetteer.png\" alt=\"Gazetteer\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We know how much current RootsMagic users like the free PlaceFinder program we&#8217;ve included all these years.\u00a0 Think of the Gazetteer as a world-wide PlaceFinder on steroids.\u00a0 Like the Place Search above, just type in as much of the place as you know and click Search.\u00a0 The Gazetteer will show you all matches, and will even let you view an online map of any of those matching places (you need to be online to view the online map of course).<\/p>\n<p>Think we&#8217;re done with places?\u00a0 You&#8217;ll need to check out my next blog entry to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever been entering a place and wished you knew what county, province, state or country the place was in?\u00a0 RootsMagic 4 now provides a worldwide place database with 3.5 million places in it.\u00a0 Just pop up the place search and enter what you know about the place and RootsMagic will display matching places.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[42,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}