* Mapping

[Jan Gleusteen]

Hello,
I use FH6 and try to map different places in Amsterdam to one person.
If there are f.e. 6 different places in Amsterdam (Birth; Christening; different places to stay and different places of occupation.
I tried may hours to arrange the settings into FH but without succes
If in the property box the the places are filed, f.e. birth; occupation; places to live which are the steps I can make to put it in the Map aerea and see the places in the map?
Until now I got two markers one for birth and one for a street in the Map section.
Can you explain me how I can put f.e. six places in Amsterdam under the same person in FH?
So I can see 6 marks instead of the 2?
Regards,
Jan

[tatewise]

Hi Jan,
Only Place fields (as ringed in red below) will be mapped , not Address fields.
Mapping works best if the Place field has Town, Region, and Country all entered.
Use the Map Window red pin and choose Map Places for <current person> as highlighted in yellow/blue below.

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In the Map Window click the [+] next to persons name to show all facts (yellow highlight below).
There should be a tick next to each fact, which shows its Place name f.e. Born 1891 in Orlando, Florida, USA.
See also glossary:map_window|> Workspace 8: Map Window.

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[LornaCraig]

As you will see from Mike's reply, only Place fields are mapped. So if you have recorded the same Place (Amsterdam, Netherlands) for all six life events there will be only one marker on the map, probably somewhere in the middle of Amsterdam, corresponding to all those events. This is true even if you have put different information in the Address field for each event.

If you want to be able to see six different locations within Amsterdam, you will need to create six different Place records. You can do this by including the Address details in the Place field. You may have done this already, but unfortunately the mapping function in FH doesn't handle distinctions at address level so the automatic geocoding will probably still put most or all of them in the middle of Amsterdam. However you will then be able to manually adjust each one.

There are various ways of doing this, as explained in this extract from the FH Help file:

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Because the markers will be on top of one another you can't easily use the Enable Marker Dragging method, but the method of click-and-drag from the Place record in the List Pane on the left of the Map Window will work.

You should also use Tools>Preference>Map Window and tick Block Refresh for Non-tentative Geocodes so that your manually adjusted locations are not re-set later by any automatic geocoding.

[Jan Gleusteen]

Thank you very much for your advises!!!!
I did as advised and it works very well.
So the problem is solved.
Regards,

Jan