Admin Places Geocode

Admin Places Geocode
Summary	Among other things, establishes the number of desired decimal digits in geocoordinates and rounds all geocoordinates calculated from maps.
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Mod Updated	21 Dec 2020
Download link	v13.0.0.6 TNG 13.0 v12.0.0.4 TNG 12.0
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Author(s)	Robin Richmond
Homepage	Robin Richmond's Genealogy Database
Mod Support	My Mod Support form or TNG Community Forums
Contact Developer	My Mod Support form
Latest Mod	v13.0.0.6
Min TNG V	10.1
Max TNG V	13.0.2
Files modified	admin_geocodeform.php, admin_geocode.php, admin_editplace.php, googlemaplib2.php, places_help.php, admin_genconfig.php, admin_updateconfig.php
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Notes

Purpose of the Mod

Defines an improved workflow for and limits on the batch geocoding process at Admin>>Places>>Geocode

1. Defines a TNG system parameter that establishes the number of desired decimal digits in geocoodinates (latitude and longitude),
2. Rounds all geocoodinates that originate in maps (in all TNG programs that do so),
3. In the Admin>>Places>>Geocode 'batch' Geocoding program:
4. In Admin>>Places>>Edit, geocoordinates are rounded automatically as they are read from the database (though users can enter and save values with more digits,
1. Geocoding results are displayed right on the Geocode form, and
2. New filters can ignore certain problematic placename components.

In the distributed TNG code, admin_geocodeform.php displays the kickoff form, which invokes admin_geocode.php to do the geocoding. After admin_geocode.php displays the results, it displays a link back to the kickoff form in admin_geocodeform.php. This mod moves the PHP code that does geocoding into admin_geocodeform.php so that the results can be displayed on the same web page as another kickoff form. With this change, admin_geocode.php is no longer used at all.

Mod Options

These mod options are custom TNG settings, defined and edited in a Mod Settings Block in the form at Admin>>Setup>>General Settings, in a new subform named Mod Settings Blocks. The Mod Settings Blocks mod is a prerequisite for the installation of this mod. The only mod option is the number of decimal digits that will be saved by various program.

This mod uses its option to affect how geocoordinates are read from Google maps or OpenStretMap, and to affect how geocoordinates are read by the Places Edit page. However, the option is not applied when the Places Edit page saves the geoordinates. Thus, if you type more decimal digits than are specified by the option into the latitude and longitude fields, the longer value will be saved to the database.

Side Effects

This mod modifies TNG's google map PHP functions to round geocoordinate when any program reads geocoordinates from the map, whether that means doing a place search in the map or clicking on the map. This modification affects the Cemetery and Media edit pages without making any changes to those pages.

Compatibility

This mod is compatible with Places Subject to Deletion, Tree ID Mod, Admin Places Search, TreeID-One Column, Placename Format, Google Maps - More Place Levels Mod, and Google maps 15, all of which also affect Admin>>Places.

The Geocode Assist Mod v10.0.0.2 will suppress the Geocode Globe if the place level is set to -1 (Do not Geocode).

If you import your data, this value may not be preserved across an import. See the Do Not Geocode section in the Geocode Assist Mod on how to preserve the value across an import.

Related Mods

1. The Mod Settings Blocks mod packages this mod's options into what I call a "Mod Settings Block", which is a set of form fields that formatted and labeled so that it stands out among other options in an Admin>>Setting form. Mod Settings Blocks is a prerequisite for this mod; it must be installed before this mod can be installed.
2. An Inner Mod Menu, which provides handy links from TNG pages directly to mod documentation and a mod's Mods Settings Block. (Inner Mod Menus are visible only to TNG Admins; never to end users.)
3. The Mods Used feature, which captures a list of mods that affected the code used to display a TNG page. (This is analogous to the Mod Manager Analyzer feature that reports which mods affect a given TNG file, but that applies at run-time.
4. Admin Cemetery Edit modifies the Admin>>Cemeteries>>Edit form to use this mod's option (number of decimal digits to which the cemetery geocoordinates will be rounded) as it reads the geocoordinates from the database or writes the geocoordinates to the database.

Installation

This mod includes a typical mod subfolder, with the same base name as the mod's .cfg file. The subfolder is atypical in that no files in it are installed to working TNG folders. However, it does contain critical files that contain the mod's language strings, which the mod does not add to standard cust_text.php files. Instead, the PHP code modified by this mod loads the language strings from files in the mod's languages/ subfolder. Read more about this technique.

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Requirements

• A working TNG installation.
• An installed current version of the Mod Manager.
• You should backup files listed in the panel on the right.

Procedure

1. Remove and delete previous version of this mod.
2. Backup the files updated by this mod. They are listed in the panel at the upper right.
3. Download the .zip file, Extract its .cfg file to the mods folder.
4. Follow the normal automated installation for Mod Manager, as shown in the example Mod Manager - Installing Config Files.

Problems?

1. Try using the Mod Manager Remove capability
2. Contact me through My Mod Support form.

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Visualizations

BEFORE: The Admin >> Places >> Geocode Kickoff form, and the results page Note that the "Reset" checkbox, which causes all "geoignore" flags in the selected tree to be reset, was introduced with TNGv11, but the mod also works for TNGv10.1, which does not have that checkbox.

AFTER: The initial kickoff form

AFTER: Geocoding results, with the kickoff form on same page

BEFORE: The Admin >> Places Editor (It may look a little odd with the map hidden)

AFTER: The Admin >> Places Editor The "number of decimal digits" option is set to 5. If stored values have more than 5 decimal digits, they will be rounded as they are read, and a note will let the user know that this rounding occurred.

AFTER: New text in the Places help file This mod also adds text to the "Add New/Edit" section of the help file, but that text is not shown here.

Revision History

Mod Version	TNG Version	Date	Note
13.0.0.6	13.0 - 13.0.2	21 Dec 2020	Upgraded to TNGv13 Removed target locations that created and used the 'Do not geocode' placelevel, since that feature is now native to TNGv13 Defines the mod option in a Mod Settings Block, and implements the Inner Mod Menu mod.
12.0.0.4	12.0 - 12.2+	30 Sep 2019	The Mod option at Admin>>Setup>>General Settings>Miscellaneous now use an include file that is shared with other mods.
12.0.0.3a	12.0+	14Nov2018	Small improvements: Better error checking; deals with trailing spaces, displays the placename before trying to geocode it so that the log will more clearly show where the process crashed.
12.0.0.3	12.0+	4May2018	No functional changes; made compatible with TNGv12.
12.0.0.3	12.0+	4May2018	No functional changes; made compatible with TNGv12.
10.1.0.3	10.1	10Nov2017	Defines a TNG system parameter that establishes the number of desired decimal digits in Geocodes and rounds all Geocodes calculated from maps. Provides new filters can ignore certain problematic placename components.
10.1.0.1	10.1	19Apr2017	New mod.

Sites using this mod

If you download and install this mod, please add your site to the table below.

URL	User	Note	Mod-Version	TNG-Version	User-language
Robin Richmond's Genealogy Database	Robin Richmond	Mod developer	13.0.0.6	13.0.2	English
Joseph Oran Holtz Genealogy Pages	Jim Holt	Not a Public Site	10.1.0.3	11.1.2	English
Our Roy and Boucher Family	Ken Roy		10.1.0.2 beta	11.1.1	English
Cole / Tanner Family Tree	David Cole	Public/Private	see here	see here	English
Skeel, Schaffalitzky. Find navne i Danmarks Adels Aarbog	Finn Holbek	public & private	12.1	DA,EN,DE,CS,ES - etc.	Danish
Our Family Histories	Bryan S. Larson	Public - T8 customized	see here	see here	EN