Can anyone please suggest what’s going on here? I have a place ‘Fittleworth’ which I put into RM as being in the English county of West Sussex. When I used the ‘Geocode selected place’ command this is what I got
They’re not particularly important differences in themselves but I’m certainly curious as to how RM can put two different sets of coordinates into my database at the same time.
Is the one on the left Degrees, Minutes, Seconds while the one on the right is in decimal degrees?
i.e. 50 Degrees, 57 Minutes is equal to 50.96 Degrees
Dave
Most geolocation services “settle” on some point of reference in the locality, because they span some square distance (officially or unofficially). It could be a Town or Council Hall, Municipal government building or estimated center, Etc.
Makes me curious about which service RM has used to populate their location database.
A quick side note … some GIS software / systems use a geometrically-calculated value called a “centroid”.
When mapping my ancestors in Google Earth Pro, if I don’t have a specific location (like a hospital), I put a marker on the centroid of the most granular location. For example, I know exactly where I was born, so there’s a pin on the hospital. I know the city where my parents were born, but nothing more granular. The pins in the map below are for all my direct ancestors, with the pins placed at the most granular available centroid. (Some are at city level, some at county level, and many at state level.)
I wish RM could output a KML or KMZ file for geocoded places. That would make it super-easy to stay sync’ed between it and G.E.P.
Dude! You’re such an incredible resource! I wish I’d known about your tool before I did all that work by manually. I still would have done some additional things beyond (like creating BLM land grant polygons), but still.
@rzamor1 Surely Tom’s done the heavy lifting & his code could be a model for doing it natively in RM. Would the RM team consider such a feature request?
