eFFemeer Posted April 15 Report Share Posted April 15 1) Many places don't show .long and .lat, but still bring up the right place when the "white on purple arrow" is clicked 2) Maps are shown with numbers 1 , 2 ... on a pink tick mark. When clicking on those tick marks a Google map is shown that would try to indicate the route from my location to that place. Strange! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GOGGS Posted April 15 Report Share Posted April 15 Pink is the color in TNG that is used to chow that you haven't yet set a "placelevel" for that place, e.g. Country, State, County/Shire, City/Town, etc. The route from that place to your location is a Google feature, not TNG... When you edit a place in TNG, you can set the Place Level on the Admin screen... GOGGS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eFFemeer Posted April 15 Author Report Share Posted April 15 Thank you for your reply, but Places is really going bezirk these days. I just tried to change the "placelevel" for one location, -> 31,643 (all) places have been reallocated to the same location! And geocoding either does nothing or gives erroneous results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GOGGS Posted April 15 Report Share Posted April 15 Hopefully you're NOT doing "Select All" when making changes to Place Level... These are done one at a time unless you have some code to do them automatically when entered/saved. I attached a pic of Geocoding in bulk as well... Regarding Google and geocoding or finding places, some people don't like it (haha), but a place will be parsed (as Katryne suggested) and it will do it's best to find a match. It is somewhat place/country specific. Some of your places only resolved to Den Haag and nothing more specific. Some of mine end up in a completely different place if I use the wrong address or format. For example, the Grote Kerk (as an attraction) is known in Google from a place/address as Rond de Grote Kerk 12, 2513 AM Den Haag, Netherlands. Again, that may not be your preference, but that's what Google has. BTW, aren't 's- designations for tram stops? That is a transit "layer" on Google, which does show on the maps by default. I've had to change a lot of my data in TNG to work with Google Maps, but I like the way it works! GOGGS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katryne Posted April 19 Report Share Posted April 19 If you do not want to show the route to the place in Google Earth, there is a mod to hide it : https://tng.lythgoes.net/wiki/index.php?title=Hide_google_earth_links Citation Purpose of the Mod Hide, delete or replace Google Earth links from maps. Replace some of them by a link to placesearch.php. Links are hidden on showmap.php, headstones.php, placesearch.php and getperson.php. On this last page, the link is replaced by a link to placesearch.php for the considered place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eFFemeer Posted April 19 Author Report Share Posted April 19 Works well. Thanks a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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