{"id":69,"date":"2008-09-05T11:10:28","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T18:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2008-09-05T11:10:28","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T18:10:28","slug":"rootsmagic-4-unwrapped-mapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"RootsMagic 4 Unwrapped &#8211; Mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RootsMagic has long had the ability to display an online map for places in your database (it was even a recent &#8220;tip of the month&#8221; in the RootsMagic newsletter).\u00a0 We have expanded that capability in RootsMagic 4.<\/p>\n<p>When you open the mapping feature in RootsMagic 4, you will have a list of (1) all the places in your database.\u00a0 Click on a place in the list and RootsMagic will display a map of the place for you.\u00a0 You can use all the Virtual Earth tools (zoom, aerial, birds-eye, etc).\u00a0 You can even print your map or copy it to the clipboard to paste into other programs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/rm4mapplace.png\" target=\"-blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-70\" title=\"Map Place\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/rm4mapplace.png\" alt=\"Map Place\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you select the Aerial option, you can view the satellite image of your map.\u00a0 You can view the satellite image either with or without the labels for towns, streets, etc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/rm4mapaerial.png\" target=\"-blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71\" title=\"Map Aerial\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/rm4mapaerial.png\" alt=\"Map Aerial\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new RootsMagic 4 mapping makes it easy to see where the events in a person&#8217;s life happened.\u00a0 Just switch (1) from &#8220;Places&#8221; to &#8220;People&#8221; and RootsMagic will display a list of the people in your database.\u00a0 Click on anyone in the list and RootsMagic will display a map showing that person&#8217;s events.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/rm4mappeople.png\" target=\"-blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-72\" title=\"Map People\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/rm4mappeople.png\" alt=\"Map People\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can move your mouse over any marker to see what events in that person&#8217;s life occurred there.\u00a0 And of course you can see these markers on either the map or aerial view.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned as we continue to map out the new features in RootsMagic 4 (my wife told me that was a dumb line, but I decided to run with it anyways).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RootsMagic has long had the ability to display an online map for places in your database (it was even a recent &#8220;tip of the month&#8221; in the RootsMagic newsletter).\u00a0 We have expanded that capability in RootsMagic 4. When you open the mapping feature in RootsMagic 4, you will have a list of (1) all the [&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\/69"}],"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=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}