genealogy and U.S. maps help

[William Park]

Jeff Sandys <sandysj at juno.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to write a mapping function for genealogy.  I want to read
> a gedcom database and plot an icon at a geographic location based on a
> user's query.
> 
> Can you help me find:
> 
> 1) A python interface to gedcom?  (gedcom is a well documented linear
> file so I can probably do this myself if an interface is not
> available)
> 
> 2) An index of U.S. cities and counties with their longitude and
> latitude?  This could be a web site that allows automated queries or a
> database.
> 
> (This is the hardest part of the problem since the places in the
> gedcom database are hand typed by the user.  My thought is to try and
> guess as many locations as possible, then let the user input the rest
> of the (unknown) locations by clicking on the displayed map (see
> below) then save this hard earned data for reuse, either in gedcom or
> as an auxilary dictionary)
> 
> 3) Graphics of U.S. (country, states and counties) with longitude and
> latitude relationships suitable for tk or wxpython display?
> 
> (There are some nice maps available for visio, I'm not sure if they
> could be used for my purposes)

I doubt you can do these without caughing up some money. :-)

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William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
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