The Critical Path: Places

[geoff_smith]

Now that we have more than 2500 locations in the database, the most significant roadblock now is getting the lat/long coordinates for all the places in the database.  These are all updated on the staging server from Google.

There are several issues with places that I find awkward.  First, what to do when new counties are created.  Many cousins were born in Strafford County, NH, but died in Belknap county -- without moving! -- due to the creation of the latter.  I prefer to list the county as it existed at the time of the event, but this confuses Google maps.  And Rye is generally imputed to be in Rockingham County, which did not exist before 1769.