StudentsOfDescent

"Plotting" or Mapping Cemetaries

A while back I read this post on GenealogyBlog.com about Goldbug's "SiteFinder online edition". If your not familiar with Goldbug's product line, its well worth the trip. Basically, they are the producers of Animap, and now have a free web-based version of The Gold Bug's SiteFinder U.S. place name database. This lets you search for towns, schools, courthouses, etc., and plot them onto Google Maps. The focus of this post is what it can do with Cemeteries and Google Earth...

GeoGed.com Revisited

Since, I wrote my last post on "Out Of The Earth Comes Gedcom" I received a response from GeoGed.com about this post. They mentioned that they are moving as quickly as possible to include US locations, which is great news!

Johann, of GeoGed.com, wants to collaborate about suggestions from my previous post/critique. This is also good news, and I am honored to be able to work with him on this. To make this collaboration as efficient as possible, I will solicit readers of my site in this effort. So, if anyone out there has any ideas or wishes, please post them here as comments, or you can email me, and I will still give you proper credit for them.

Next, I will list, and illustrate my ideas, as I mentioned I would do in my last post...

GeoGed.com Revisited - Part 2

To continue on with the my last related post...

Presentation of an imported Gedcom file in Google Earth.

I have to say what GeoGed.com has done with the colored circles is really good looking. What might also be good is to create a blue one for Paternal lines and a Pink for Maternal lines, with an option to choose another color(s) for non-direct lines.

Description Title: National ID #, Persons Name

Description "Bubble":

Out Of The Earth Comes Gedcom

Part I

Its here! Well almost here... I just got an email from a Johann Robette at GeoGed.com . Its apparently a new startup site that has come up with a way to convert GEDCOM files to work with Google Earth! Their initial launch is FREE! From his site it says;

GeoGed.com, genealogical cartography

"Created by a passionated genealogist and programmer, GeoGed is a free service enabling you to create precised and detailed maps of your own genealogy."

"Up to now, it only deals with some European countries (UK, BE, LU, NL, DE, ES, IT, FR). It has just finish being beta-tested and is in phase of communication." [per Johann]

I have done some testing of this, using a US based GEDCOM file, and provide you an inside look on how it works for this purpose. I will also provide a critique along the way. Please realize this is JUST an initial launch, and I hope it will soon fully support US based Gedcom files.

Out Of The Earth Comes Gedcom - Part 2

As I was saying in the first article on this; After selecting "Validate" you will see something like the following...

If any of the results have a Red X next to them you can go "Back" and fix it. Otherwise you can ignore it and continue on, it will still generate a Google Earth KML file....