Stephen Gadd

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Just parking this here for future consideration... All too often we are unable to find gazetteer matches because we don't know precisely how place-names are recorded in the gazetteers. I...

One of our users reported persistent problems with the searching of authority files. Only after much head-scratching did we realise that they were trying to use the magnifying glass icon...

We ([ViaeRegiae.org](url)) have a use case which requires the exact transcription of archaic letter forms. It would be really useful to have a built-in keypad for entry of such characters,...

When trying to find the closest authority-recognised match to a location, it would be useful to be able to see all possible options within a map viewport. One option to...

The default behaviour for the keypress of `-` while tagging is 'Zoom Out', which makes the exact transcription of place-names such as Stratford-upon-Avon impossible. Cut-and-paste from another application is a...

Wikidata being somewhat ubiquitous these days, wouldn't it be desirable to include a namespace prefix for it in the Linked Places context document, like this? `"wd": "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/"` This is the...

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There is almost always _some_ approximation in the expression of Point coordinates, and it would be useful to be able to indicate the degree of approximation. For example, archaeological find...

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PROPOSAL: An optional `uuid` property that can be used in Geometry Collections to associate particular geometries with one or more of their parent feature's types. This might be used, for...

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The LP standard limits `types` to **places**, but the format has been found usefully to serve datasets in which the `features` are actually geolocated objects, for example archaeological finds. Visualisation...

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[Specification](https://github.com/LinkedPasts/linked-places-format#when-required) requires one of in|earliest|latest, but the given examples omit these properties.

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