USGS GNIS not working in v7... again

[MsScarlet1957 0]

When I open a tag and add a town and state and click on the "world" icon to do a search at GNIS website for the county, all I get is:

"The requested URL /pls/gnis/web_query.gnisprod was not found on this server."

 

This bug "was" fixed in v.6 via a .zip file download available from WG in v.6 but now appears to be "broken" again.

Should I apply that zip file fix to my new V7 program file?

I did edit the "webplaces.txt" file via the

web/place databases/customize window to what is it "supposed" to be

(http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic) but it still is not helping the button work in V7

[Jim Byram 0]

Actually, it was never 'fixed' in v6. Attached are updated placeinfo.ini and webplaces.txt files with updated GNIS URLs.

 

These two files need to be added to the user program data folder replacing the existing files. The location of the folder is:

 

Windows Vista

C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\The Master Genealogist v7

 

Windows XP and Windows 2000

C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\The Master Genealogist v7

 

[updated files are attached.]

 

I don't know when the attachments issue will be resolved. In the meantime, you can edit the two files (located in the appropriate folder above) and make the changes. Use a text editor such as Notepad and edit the two files and replace the old text with the new text below:

 

webplaces.txt

United States (GNIS) ; http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic

 

placeinfo.ini

[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"

GNIS.zip

[MsScarlet1957 0]

Actually, it was never 'fixed' in v6.

 

Actually it was fixed as I said.. "via a .zip file"

(link to it was supplied by WG in a newsletter: Wholly Genes Newsletter, 27 July 2007, Issue 2007-11 )

 

I wonder why they did not include that "fix" in with v7...

I thank you for your help, and all is working fine again.

I was just afraid to try to apply that "fix from v.6" to v.7 without someone reassuring me on it.

I tried it on my laptop installation of v7 first "just to be sure" all would be OK!