GEDCOM Specification 7.0.1 promotes the FORM Format tag for Place and Media in a similar fashion and formalises extensions using the SCHMA Schema tag. It also extends the PLAC Place structure further.
IMO the sooner GEDCOM 7.0.1 is adopted and fully supported the better.
* FH GEDCOM 5.5.1 compliance
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Mike Tate ~ researching the Tate and Scott family history ~ tatewise ancestry
Re: FH GEDCOM 5.5.1 compliance
Regarding boundaries I discovered this geocode.txt file which ships with the program and appears to define that to some degree.
Questions now are how do FH utilize this file and can it be user edited to any additional benefit?
Questions now are how do FH utilize this file and can it be user edited to any additional benefit?
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If this is a file defining "geography" in some sense, as supplied by an outside "authority" (whether that's the software company or whatever), I would advise anyone to be very, very wary of such authority-produced stuff. It's great if the producers agree with you, or you know so little about that area that you are prepared to swallow the data uncritically. But otherwise?
I have experience of working with FamilySearch FamilyTree, which has a set of standardised place-names. The problem is where the place-name team followed paths that I don't agree with - for instance, all place-names in the UK from 1801 terminate in "country, United Kingdom". While I can cope with that, what I can't cope with is the inconsistency of then ignoring "Great Britain" from 1707 to 1800 and just terminating places with (say) "Scotland" up to 1800. Oh, and the counter-factual pandering to nationalists by ignoring the fact that Ireland was in the UK from 1801 to 1921.
It's actually rather sad because I have huge sympathy for anyone in the FS place-name team who tries to keep their data up-to-date - I doubt any of the current team are responsible for any of those decisions.
Basically, because of all these issues, I'm not sure that system based interfaces to geographical authority files are a sensible use of Calico Pie's time.
Adrian