# Links to Place Locations

**URL:** <https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/links-to-place-locations/3709>\
**Category:** RootsMagic\
**Tags:** question, feature-request\
**Created:** [February 7, 2022, 8:15pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/links-to-place-locations/3709 "2022-02-07T20:15:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Dark-Moon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/dark-moon/32/732_2.png) [@Dark-Moon](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/Dark-Moon)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 8:15pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/links-to-place-locations/3709/1 "2022-02-07T20:15:58Z")

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In the **Places** tab, I can specify a Latitude & Longitude, which if I then switch to the **Mapping** mode it displays the location in a nice map. This is a great feature, however, I would like to be able to access this from the **People** tab. So I click on an Individual and then on a specific Fact eg Birth and if there is a Place/Place Details associated with this Fact that also has an associated Latitude/Longitude and it then pops up a map of the place in a similar fashion to what happens in the **Places** tab.

Is this possible? If so how do I go about it, I can’t see anything obvious.

If not do people think it would be a good feature to have and if so how likely is it to be implemented and how do I request it?

Since I work mainly in the Individual view (with all the facts and associated sources) I would like to be able to view locations (where configured) in the same way that I can click on an associated image and have that appear in a seperate window.

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**Author:** ![OleSeminole](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/oleseminole/32/2498_2.png) [@OleSeminole](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/OleSeminole)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2022, 10:15pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/links-to-place-locations/3709/2 "2022-02-08T22:15:57Z")

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You can view of map of the fact place but it takes several clicks. Highlight a fact, click on the place spyglass + icon which will open a window of several places. Then click on the associated place row and click “View Online”. A map will open.

 ![Capture](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/rootsmagic/original/1X/e5e0ff9a6f765a046358b56d7ef2b0b787dd2d3c.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Dark-Moon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/dark-moon/32/732_2.png) [@Dark-Moon](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/Dark-Moon)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2022, 8:54am UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/links-to-place-locations/3709/3 "2022-02-09T08:54:27Z")

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Yes you can, a bit long winded, but that is not really what I was wanting. Maybe I didn’t make myself clear, sorry, it is a map for the actual “place details” that I want to appear eg. **Place** = “Rothwell, Yorkshire” … **Pace Details** = “Holy Trinity Church.”.

There doesn’t seem to be a way of doing that, as you have described in your previous post, which would be nice, but it would be even better to just have a button at the side of the the **Place Details** that you click on and the maps is displayed.

The code is already in RM8 to do this, since it can be done from the **Mapping** mode of the **Places** tab, so I can’t see that it would be much of a strecth to add this to the **Place Details** in the **People** view.

Actually, after further investigation, it doesn’t seem to work how I envisaged it (or would like it) to work. You cannot click on the **Place Details** in the **Places** tab and get it to display a map, only the general place. … Shame.