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Phil, Wholly Genes Tech Support, has been helping me with a frustrating problem I am having; trying to use the TMG7.03 "Look up this place on the web" icon (the globe icon found on the Edit Place screen).

 

I wonder if anyone else has noticed this new problem (or is there a work-around solution)

 

Steps to Duplicate the Problem:

 

1) Choose Master Place List

2) Double click any location on the Master Place List screen

3) Left click on the second icon (globe) "Look up this place on the web"

4) Choose the first option "U.S. Geographic Name Information Service (GNIS)

5) Click "Select"

 

Problem:

Instead of going to the OLD GNIS screen (so that I can find the Lat/Long coordinates of the location) TMG7.03 takes me to a FIPS55 screen with no helpful information except for a PLACE CODE.

 

If I select this PLACE CODE the FIPS55 site forwards me to another FIPS55 QUERY FORM screen that has absolutely no location information on it. I need to go to the old GNIS screen at http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic.

 

How can I fix this problem? Phil and I have checked our placeinfo.ini files and find that my file matches the one he has at tech support.

 

Sure need some help on this one.

 

David

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<br />Phil, Wholly Genes Tech Support, has been helping me with a frustrating problem I am having; trying to use the TMG7.03 "Look up this place on the web" icon (the globe icon found on the Edit Place screen).<br /><br />I wonder if anyone else has noticed this new problem (or is there a work-around solution)<br /><br />Steps to Duplicate the Problem:<br /><br />1) Choose Master Place List<br />2) Double click any location on the Master Place List screen<br />3) Left click on the second icon (globe) "Look up this place on the web"<br />4) Choose the first option "U.S. Geographic Name Information Service (GNIS)<br />5) Click "Select"<br /><br />Problem:<br />Instead of going to the OLD GNIS screen (so that I can find the Lat/Long coordinates of the location) TMG7.03 takes me to a FIPS55 screen with no helpful information except for a PLACE CODE.<br /><br />If I select this PLACE CODE the FIPS55 site forwards me to another FIPS55 QUERY FORM screen that has absolutely no location information on it. I need to go to the old GNIS screen at <a href="http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic" target="_blank">http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic</a>.<br /><br />How can I fix this problem? Phil and I have checked our placeinfo.ini files and find that my file matches the one he has at tech support.<br /><br />Sure need some help on this one.<br /><br />David<br />
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Can someone tell me where the TMG7.03 file "placeinfo.ini" should be located? I am using Vista Ultimate "32bit" and have TMG7.03 installed using the "just for me" option.

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<br />It would be with User Program Data Files (see Help > Data File Storage). By default that would be in Vista:<br /><br /> C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\The Master Genealogist v7<br /><br />Virginia<br />
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Thanks Virginia,

 

That is where I found mine .... just checking to make sure I was looking in the right place. Getting GREAT SUPPORT from Phil (TMG Technical Support). He has me to the correct URL now; but the programmers still need to add the necessary routing information such as 1) Site 2) State 3) County 4) Type i.e. Populated etc. to the URL address.

 

Hope Phil and the TMG programmers can finish solving this new location database option problem.

 

Later,

David

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Just edit the placeinfo.ini file located where Virginia told you and replace the GNIS site section with this:

 

[site]

Name="U.S. Geographic Name Information Service (GNIS)"

Logo="USGS.bmp"

LogoLink="http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form"

Description="Find information on this place from the U.S. GNIS."

Condition="[countryabbrev]='US' and !EMPTY([feature]+[countyabbrev])"

URL="http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnisarchive/web_fips55.gnisprod?state_name=[state]&state_code=&f_name=[feature]&cname=[countyabbrev]&clas_code=&msa=&ord=pcode&p_code1=&p_code2=&my_function=Send+Query&tab=Y"

 

That should have been done with the v7.01 update.

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Just edit the placeinfo.ini file located where Virginia told you and replace the GNIS site section with this:

 

[site]

Name="U.S. Geographic Name Information Service (GNIS)"

Logo="USGS.bmp"

LogoLink="http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form"

Description="Find information on this place from the U.S. GNIS."

Condition="[countryabbrev]='US' and !EMPTY([feature]+[countyabbrev])"

URL="http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnisarchive/web_fips55.gnisprod?state_name=[state]&state_code=&f_name=[feature]&cname=[countyabbrev]&clas_code=&msa=&ord=pcode&p_code1=&p_code2=&my_function=Send+Query&tab=Y"

 

That should have been done with the v7.01 update.

 

 

This is indeed what my 7.03 placeinfo.ini file already says, but the result is precisely what davenmesa reports.

 

 

formerprof

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I just revised the GNIS site definition for placeinfo.ini and the revision works correctly with every test that I've run. Placeinfo.ini will be updated by the TMG v7.04 update.

 

[site]

Name="U.S. Geographic Name Information Service (GNIS)"

Logo="USGS.bmp"

LogoLink="http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form"

Description="Find information on this place from the U.S. GNIS."

Condition="[countryabbrev]='US'"

URL="http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:2:::no::P1_FNAME,P1_COUNTY,P1_STATE:[feature],[countyabbrev],[state]"

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