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The geocoding stopped part way through with this error code: COM exception:(.\src\library\tLuaCOM.cpp,394):The operation timed out stack traceback: [C]: in function 'Send' [string "C:\ProgramData\Calico Pie\Family Historian\..."]:3421: in function 'StrGeocodeLocation' [string "C:\ProgramData\Calico ...

One thing noticed: after the clear of not null long/lati fields , upon loading the plugin, indication of 579 of 2860 not plotted before even beginning. I thought I would see all 2860 as no geocode found. As an aside, TNG had 423 not plotted with it's geocoding.

tatewise wrote:Ron, you could create a custom Place Query with a Lat/Long column.
Then in the Result Set select that entire column and hit Delete key.

Thank you, worked nicely. I thought maybe a query and delete might work; just needed confirmation. Now can redo geocoding.

Thanks Mike. Will proceed with the remapping. Not necessary, but with the issues I had, I was sort of looking for a way to clear ALL long/lati entries before redoing so I had assurances all were redone. But apparently way in FH to do that, short of using a editor macro to clear all MAP and LONG/LATI...

After doing a full backup, I used the plugin's erase place database, but looking at the work with data place listing, the geocoding is still there? I am very confused on where and what I do to clear/refresh all geocoding.

I'll take that as good news. I just have to get everything geocoded properly. It appears not all locations originally geocoded by FH were replaced by your plugin's geocoding, because I did the one's in question singly, and the results were correct. How do I confirm that geocoding was done for all pl...

I would be interested in the places that geocoded poorly in the Plugin. There often is a reason, although I realise TNG does not have a problem. Mike, here's some examples for which the plugin misfired and TNG got it right. Note that all had correct USA State Abbr . (burial ) St. Mary's Catholic Ce...

I did change regional bias to United States ; missed it when scrolling the selections. In comparison to TNG, found some places were geocoded way off by the plugin, so concluded that for my use, TNG's geocode seems to do a bit better job, have decided to retain TNG's mapping for the website. On TNG, ...

Some posts were lost late yesterday, apparently. I notice FHUG site is very slow at times, particularly yesterday, but I usually to see posts disappear. Anyway, the messages lost were about hitting the Google limit, and will try again today.

Gosh... :oops: too many Place this and that, field and records, etc. : Once I set the Preferences to Place Records ; the examples I cited were geocoded correctly ! I have a hard time keeping the terminology straight. Yes I did skim the documentation, but it is a tad overwhelming at first glance. But...

Don't know why, but I exceeded my daily google quota (2500?) for geocoding with only 1230 plotted and 400 not plotted, and another 1100 or so to go. I tried restarting, but got the same message, so done for today I guess. So now, to get these into Place records; I do this, bu then the new values wil...

Running it now. You answered before I had a chance to delete my question since I saw the option to geocode all.

It is the current dat file that's in use. I have no other since that hidden window phenomena. I have not changed it; nor restored it. I can't reproduce it at will, as I said. But I will be certain to capture it next time Mike.

OK Mike, the file is attached. Could this phenomena happen because during comparison testing of recent, I have been switching back and forth between various versions of the Export to Gedcom plugin, which I renamed with version numbers to make them unique? It looks like there's only one .dat file for...

Don't give up on FH yet. Use my Map Life Facts Plugin in combination with the Map Window. Many users have great success with the Plugin because it uses Google Maps to perform the geocoding. Will try that. I agree that Google does an excellent job in their mapping, at least in Google search and mapp...

Mike, Unrelated to this thread, but have run into it before, when running a plugin, in this case the Export to Gedcom, from tools/pugins/select from plugins/ then have the opening screen, depress run, indicates running, and the window with options appears behind the first screen, but I cannot get to...

Well,my spirits have been dampened. Spot checking some of the geocodes I see some really far off results, especially compared to what TNG did with the same location. Examples: Guardian Angels, Oakdale, MN ....geocoded to West Virginia! Bethesda Hospital, St. Paul, MN....geocoded to Washington DC! Du...

TNG import went well, receiving ~ 1900 geocoded places vs. 2200 with TNG's geocode. so ~85% of what TNG deciphered. I have nearly 1/3 not geocoded because many are very messed up with Gedcoms merged in long ago. Its possible FH wasn't finished geocoding either (how do you tell when it is finished?)...

Good News ! I found the reason for no 'untidy' popup. My TNG Extra Options PLAC Record 0 was set to 'Remove Entirely'. no idea how long it has been set like that. I've changed it to 'Remove Indent' (like the post I referred to discussing geocoding and TNG) and now popups appeared for Fulham (and a ...

Redid the test of similar Places as you specified, this time to TNG and no popups received from Export to Gedcom 3.2.3 . The spaces and extra comma were removed from the BIRT PLAC. 0 @I14475@ INDI 1 NAME Test1 // 1 BIRT 2 DATE 10 NOV 1954 2 PLAC Fulham, London, England 1 DEAT 2 DATE 1 NOV 2011 2 PLA...

Thanks for the information on Places. FWIW.. I just installed TNG 11.1.1 which now supports Gedcom LOC records. No, _PLAC Records and LATI/LONG are NOT part of Gedcom 5.5 (but are in Draft 5.5.1 in a different form). If the LATI/LONG data needs to be adjusted for TNG it has never been mentioned befo...

Oh, what about the switch in geocoder in FH6.2.5? Significant? I did the FH map / geocode in FH 6.2.4 this afternoon; haven't compared it to what TNG does, but it makes total sense to let my primary input program do it and pass along to TNG . OK, updated to FH 6.2.5 , and doing the geocoding again....

Tested with LFT Export to Gedcom 3.2.3. With ticked and unticked Avoid Repeat Captions , the Gedcom files were Binarily identical. An individual born and died with the 2 similar places exactly as you indicated: Fulham,London, England Fulham, London, , England There was no popup , and the F H Place L...

I wanted to test what you asked on similar Places and watch for the Popup (from your Plugin I presume). This will seem like a beginner question, but can you add Places independent of being assigned to an event/person? In TNG, there is a Places tab in Admin , where, if desired, new Places can be crea...

Could you deliberately create two Place Records in TNG with similar names that tidy to the same name, and review the resulting popup message. . Not sure what you mean, create in TNG? I don't generally input any data there, and don't export from it. Did you mean FH? And what popup ? I did enter them...