# Places - manually entering geo-coordiantes

**URL:** <https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/places-manually-entering-geo-coordiantes/14025>\
**Category:** RootsMagic\
**Tags:** question, rootsmagic\
**Created:** [June 12, 2025, 3:53pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/places-manually-entering-geo-coordiantes/14025 "2025-06-12T15:53:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![marcelma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@marcelma](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/marcelma)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 3:53pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/places-manually-entering-geo-coordiantes/14025/1 "2025-06-12T15:53:31Z")

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I am trying to manully enter geo-coordinates in the “Places” menue, but each time they are being re-set to zero. Can anybody give me a hint of what to do?

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**Author:** ![kbens0n](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/kbens0n/32/80_2.png) [@kbens0n](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/kbens0n)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 4:58pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/places-manually-entering-geo-coordiantes/14025/2 "2025-06-12T16:58:39Z")

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I’m guessing that your operating system settings may involve support for non-USA conventions that RootsMagic may conflict with (as discussed in the following thread)  
[Gedcom with latitude and longitude not importing in RM8 - RootsMagic - RootsMagic Community](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/gedcom-with-latitude-and-longitude-not-importing-in-rm8/660/41)

As a sidenote, this little convention below is a bit of a timesaver, once those other issues can be tamed:

 ![Screenshot 2025-06-12 124821](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/rootsmagic/original/2X/a/a38d56d074de8d68ef037134f6242a9ae22b2338.png)

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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:** [June 13, 2025, 1:07pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/places-manually-entering-geo-coordiantes/14025/3 "2025-06-13T13:07:46Z")

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When I am unable to find the place Geo in RM (like in Europe), I use Google maps to locate the place, right click on the location, click on the coordinates (which copies it to the clipboard), then I paste it to the RM place entry latitude and hit tab (which moves the longitude to the correct data field) in RM. It sounds like a complicated move, but you get faster with experience.

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**Author:** ![kevync1985](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3be4f8/32.png) [@kevync1985](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/kevync1985)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 11:56pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/places-manually-entering-geo-coordiantes/14025/4 "2025-06-13T23:56:59Z")

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make sure you are not copying /pasting extra characters including spaces or other characters

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**Author:** ![Manfred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/0ea827/32.png) [@Manfred](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/Manfred)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 2:58pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/places-manually-entering-geo-coordiantes/14025/5 "2026-10-25T14:58:06Z")

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Is fixed in 12.1.1:

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/rootsmagic/original/2X/f/f56386406f2c59e7ab9b1dd4bfa78982d2d8d633.png)

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**Author:** ![kevync1985](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3be4f8/32.png) [@kevync1985](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/kevync1985)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 9:55pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/places-manually-entering-geo-coordiantes/14025/6 "2026-10-25T21:55:30Z")

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Good Call out thank for letting everyone know