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Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation / Re: Mapping the travels of our ancestors
« on: Saturday 31 January 09 14:36 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Jude

Alas no Mac version is planned - primarily as I don't have a Mac and also, MMA is based heavily on the Micro$oft .Net framework so it would mean a rewrite from the bottom up - sorry  :(

All the best

Tim

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For Sale / Wanted / Events / Re: For the Genealogist who has everything...!
« on: Wednesday 17 December 08 20:57 GMT (UK)  »
I've just added a fun little feature to Map My Ancestors.

You can now export your Family Tree maps to use on your GPS or SatNav!

You can use the files as POI (Points Of Interest) data and so your SatNav can alert you whenever you are driving near to a significant place from your Family Tree!

Tom Tom, Garmin, Navman and Navigon systems are supported.

Map My Ancestors can be downloaded from -

http://www.familytreeassistant.com



Merry Christmas to you all!   ;D

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For Sale / Wanted / Events / For the Genealogist who has everything...!
« on: Wednesday 17 December 08 20:44 GMT (UK)  »
Stuck for a Christmas Gift idea for your fellow Genealogist?

Or do your friends or relatives need an idea for a gift for yourself?

How about trying something new, novel, a little wacky but possibly also a little useful?!

Map My Ancestors is a program that takes your existing GEDCOM files and plots them on a map using Google Earth.  The latest version of this program now supports the exporting of Points Of Interest (POI) files to GPS and SatNav devices from many major suppliers Tom To, Garmin, Naman and Navigon.

So now you can drive around and let your SatNav alert you whenever you get near a significant place from your family history!

Map My Ancestors is available to download from

http://www.familytreeassistant.com

Merry Christmas to you all   ;D

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Europe / Re: Plotting my family tree on a map
« on: Wednesday 17 December 08 20:16 GMT (UK)  »
I've written a little program that will do exactly this.

You will need to export your tree to a GEDCOM file and then it will read it in, geocode all the places and plot them on Google Earth.  Because it is viewable in Google Earth and also Google Maps it is easy to share your tree and even publish interactive maps on a web page if you want.  You can even upload them to a a GPS or SatNav now!

The program is called Map My Ancestors and you can download it from -

http://www.familytreeassistant.com

Hope this is useful to you.

Tim

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Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation / Re: Mapping the travels of our ancestors
« on: Monday 04 August 08 13:50 BST (UK)  »
I've added another new feature today.  For each placemark I've now added automatic links to the parents, spouses and children of the associated individual.  Clicking on one of these links will "fly to" the first event for that person.

You can download the new version from -

http://www.familytreeassistant.com

There is a link to a sample tree using this feature from the home page.

I've also improved the performance for people with large trees.

All the best

Tim

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Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation / Re: Mapping the travels of our ancestors
« on: Friday 11 July 08 13:44 BST (UK)  »
Following some suggestions from members of the Guild Of One Name Studies, I've added a couple of extra features -

1. You can now include a Distribution Map which shows simple icon that varies in size depending on the concentration of individuals in the locallity.
 
2. There is now the facility to import individuals from a CSV (Comma Separated Values) file rather than a GEDCOM.

To download the most recent version please use the link on the download page that says "Click here to download the most recent version now" rather than the green download.com icon (the download.com version is always about 2 weeks out of date).

The Features page gives a brief illustration of the kind of thing you can do.

http://www.familytreeassistant.com/features.html

One of the more useful features of Google Earth are the Rumsey Historical maps which are available for a number of areas (mainly cities) around the world.  You can view these from the Layers menu of Google Earth (select Gallery and Rumsey Historical Maps).

Have fun!   ;D

Tim

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Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation / Re: Mapping the travels of our ancestors
« on: Friday 04 July 08 12:11 BST (UK)  »
Thanks!

I'm looking at improving the performance after someone tried to geo-code a GEDCOM with over 20,000 individuals and 23,000 places in it!  I'm afraid to say it was a teeny bit   S L O W!  And poor old Google Earth had a bit of a job loading it - but it got there in the end.

However, if your 2,394 things to do are "places to find" then you should be OK ;-)

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Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation / Re: Mapping the travels of our ancestors
« on: Thursday 03 July 08 09:04 BST (UK)  »
I've taken on board the comment about the blurred video and I'm now hosting it with the http://www.rootstelevision.com people and I think the quality is somewhat better.

You can view it at -
http://www.familytreeassistant.com/tutorial.html

Thanks for the feedback  :)

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Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation / Re: Mapping the travels of our ancestors
« on: Thursday 26 June 08 19:25 BST (UK)  »
I take the point about the video.  I did record it at a better quality but YouTube reduces the quality when you host it from there.

I could host the original video on my website but I don't think it would take too may viewings before I exceeded my monthly bandwidth limit.  :(

I should probably have mentioned my moderator referal programme - all moderators who recommend 5 people who buy the program, get a copy for free  ;D

Best wishes

Tim

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