Preferences Dialog
Preferences Dialog: Map Window
Fields
| Enable Auto-Geocoding | If enabled, whenever a place is displayed in the Map Window, Family Historian will attempt to automatically determine its latitude and longitude, if this information is not already held for the Place record in question. Automatic geocoding requires an Internet connection, and uses an Internet geocoding service.* |
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| Mark Auto-geocodes as Tentative If | By default, automatic geocoding will flag a geocode as tentative if it is partial or uncertain. But you can opt to flag all automatic geocodes as (intially) tentative if you wish. See also Map Window Legend. |
| Enable Zoom Animation | By default, zooms in the Map Window are animated. Untick
this option to disable animation if required. |
| Block Refresh for Non-tentative Geocodes | You can force an automatic refresh of geocoding for any selected
places, using the Refresh Geocoding menu
command, which is accessible both on the Geocoding submenu of the
Map menu, within the Map Window, and by right-click on items in
the List pane. Enable this option to prevent a place that
already has a latitude and longitude from being refreshed in this
way, unless it is marked as tenative. |
| Preferred Map Type | The Map Window supports two different map types: 'OpenStreetMap'
(the default), and 'OSM Roads'. You can switch between map
types at any time on the Map Types submenu of the Map menu, or by
clicking on the menu button 
in the top-right of the Map Window, and choosing the required
option. These changes only affect the current Map Window,
however. The Preferred Map Type option
determines which map type will be displayed when you open a new
Map Window. |
| Units | Miles or kilometres. These values are displayed in the Map
Window. |
| Time Slider: Hide no-date markers when time slider is active | When the Time Slider is enabled (see discussion of the Time
Slider in the Map Window) markers
for places associated with dated events are only displayed if they
fall within the range specified by the Time Slider. Use this
option to specify whether, when the Time Slider is enabled, you
wish to hide markers for places which have no date, or not. |
| Override Default Country Code | Normally this field should be left blank. It is only relevant to
auto-geocoding, and only then when trying to determine the
latitude and longitude of a specified place, if the place details
do not include any recognisable country specifier, and there is a
need to guess what the most likely country might be. If this
happens, ordinarily the 'Home Location' country held by Windows
(as specified in the 'Region' settings in the Control Panel) is
used as the default country. However, it may be that you are using
a PC in one country to work on a project for people who lived
predominantly in another country. Or the Region settings on your
PC may be wrong. Either way, you can if you wish override the
default country, by specifying the ISO code of the country that
you wish to be the default. The code must be 2 letters. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1
for a list of possible 2-character country codes. If you enter a country code and later wish to revert to the default, just clear the code you entered. Changes to this field are not applied immediately. They only have an effect as from the next time you start Family Historian. |
| Fonts | Specify fonts for the Map Window. |
| Colours | Specify colours for the Map Window. |
* All features which use Internet services provided by third parties (such as Automatic Geocoding) are subject to the availability of those services.