Hi Ruth and Otto, With the powerful applications that are available today my desire is to make full use of them and, where possible, to create an integrated system without detracting from the uniqueness of the individual applications. I shy away from applications that try to be all things to all people. This is one of the beauties of BK in that John has remained focussed on providing an exceptional genealogy program. I have tried others but I am, and always have been, dedicated to BK. While this still holds true I see no reason not to take advantage of other applications that are dedicated to their own fields. I use Google Earth because it has its own strengths and by creating the ability to open GE from within BK suits me and provides me with what I need to make genealogy far more useful and fulfilling. For the same reason I use a dedicated Timeline program in conjunction with BK. The timeline that John has provided is excellent as it is focussed directly on an individual and his nearest and dearest. The Timeline program I use allows me to enter a huge range of information which I can compare to an individual's life. For example, when my ancestors came to South Africa in 1820 what agricultural implements and weapons did they have available at the time? By providing this in the Timeline program it gives me an excellent idea about how they lived. Regarding your comment, Ruth about movement patterns, again I don't feel that this should be addressed in BK, making it too large and unwieldy, but, a GIS application would be ideal for this and from this one can generate static maps that can be easily displayed in BK. So horses for courses but at the same time make the maximum use of all the tools at our disposable. Amongst all this a request for John. When working on the details of locality would it be possible to include the ability to open a graphics file as well as the currently available text file? One could then link to an external file giving more detail but one can then also open a jpg or any other graphics file to display a map of the specific town. Happy families, Paddy PS. Ruth, what does OP stand for? -----Original Message----- From: Ruth Wilson Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2012 8:28 AM To: bk@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BK] BK & Google Earth On 27/06/2012 23:10, Otto Jørgensen wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:53:25 +0200, Pat Brown <mistyhaven@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> Just thought I would pass this on in case any one else has the same >> idea. I have long wanted to combine BK and Google Earth so that I can >> easily see, and show, places that are linked to individuals. An easy >> way to do this is to open Google Earth and select the place you are >> interested in. Select the altitude you would like displayed. Select >> "Add Placemark". Give it a name. Right click on the placemark and >> "Save" it to a folder on your desktop. Now open BK and go to the >> individual related to the Placemark. Under "Media" select "Add Media >> File" and select the Desktop Icon you have just created. Now when you >> select this item in BK Google Earth will open and will fly directly to >> the Placemark you have created. You can now easily show someone all >> the places related to an individual or family. Hope this helps some >> folk. > >From Norwayh we have thought about mappinbg, and BK as some steps to > that as there are place for maps coordinates under Details of > Location. > > Doubleclick on a location and see more details. > > There are also details that we want to have as a addition > locationlist, telling about those places wehere we have more > information. That is better than have that information as footnotes og > parateses in the text/biography of a person. > > I prefer that we use the location items to add more geographical > information, also as that is allready there (only waiting for John) :) I agree that it's good to keep location data together and being able to add a Google Earth link to the location field would be very useful. However, the OP's idea is more about how an individual moved about rather than linked to one specific place. This can help in identifying or narrowing down likely places to find further information, or the pattern of movement can shed light on their life and times (did they move along the lines of new railways? Did an industry die out in one area and have a boom time elsewhere? Was there a ferry linking coastal areas? etc) Ruth Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

To Pat Brown Thanks for the suggestion about linking a picture to a location. OP stands for Original Poster (the person that started the comment or question) John Steed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Brown" <mistyhaven@gmail.com> To: <bk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2012 9:21 AM Subject: Re: [BK] BK & Google Earth Hi Ruth and Otto, With the powerful applications that are available today my desire is to make full use of them and, where possible, to create an integrated system without detracting from the uniqueness of the individual applications. I shy away from applications that try to be all things to all people. This is one of the beauties of BK in that John has remained focussed on providing an exceptional genealogy program. I have tried others but I am, and always have been, dedicated to BK. While this still holds true I see no reason not to take advantage of other applications that are dedicated to their own fields. I use Google Earth because it has its own strengths and by creating the ability to open GE from within BK suits me and provides me with what I need to make genealogy far more useful and fulfilling. For the same reason I use a dedicated Timeline program in conjunction with BK. The timeline that John has provided is excellent as it is focussed directly on an individual and his nearest and dearest. The Timeline program I use allows me to enter a huge range of information which I can compare to an individual's life. For example, when my ancestors came to South Africa in 1820 what agricultural implements and weapons did they have available at the time? By providing this in the Timeline program it gives me an excellent idea about how they lived. Regarding your comment, Ruth about movement patterns, again I don't feel that this should be addressed in BK, making it too large and unwieldy, but, a GIS application would be ideal for this and from this one can generate static maps that can be easily displayed in BK. So horses for courses but at the same time make the maximum use of all the tools at our disposable. Amongst all this a request for John. When working on the details of locality would it be possible to include the ability to open a graphics file as well as the currently available text file? One could then link to an external file giving more detail but one can then also open a jpg or any other graphics file to display a map of the specific town. Happy families, Paddy PS. Ruth, what does OP stand for? -----Original Message----- From: Ruth Wilson Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2012 8:28 AM To: bk@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BK] BK & Google Earth On 27/06/2012 23:10, Otto Jørgensen wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:53:25 +0200, Pat Brown <mistyhaven@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> Just thought I would pass this on in case any one else has the same >> idea. I have long wanted to combine BK and Google Earth so that I can >> easily see, and show, places that are linked to individuals. An easy >> way to do this is to open Google Earth and select the place you are >> interested in. Select the altitude you would like displayed. Select >> "Add Placemark". Give it a name. Right click on the placemark and >> "Save" it to a folder on your desktop. Now open BK and go to the >> individual related to the Placemark. Under "Media" select "Add Media >> File" and select the Desktop Icon you have just created. Now when you >> select this item in BK Google Earth will open and will fly directly to >> the Placemark you have created. You can now easily show someone all >> the places related to an individual or family. Hope this helps some >> folk. > >From Norwayh we have thought about mappinbg, and BK as some steps to > that as there are place for maps coordinates under Details of > Location. > > Doubleclick on a location and see more details. > > There are also details that we want to have as a addition > locationlist, telling about those places wehere we have more > information. That is better than have that information as footnotes og > parateses in the text/biography of a person. > > I prefer that we use the location items to add more geographical > information, also as that is allready there (only waiting for John) :) I agree that it's good to keep location data together and being able to add a Google Earth link to the location field would be very useful. However, the OP's idea is more about how an individual moved about rather than linked to one specific place. This can help in identifying or narrowing down likely places to find further information, or the pattern of movement can shed light on their life and times (did they move along the lines of new railways? Did an industry die out in one area and have a boom time elsewhere? Was there a ferry linking coastal areas? etc) Ruth Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message