Place Advisor coverage now extends to the entire globe down to city, town and village level.
Organizing Places - starting with Version 1.7, GEDitCOM II automatically organizes all your places. When you first open a file, it will create a place record for each place, even if the place names are spelled wrong or include non-place information, etc.. This version has some feature to help organizing places:
To encourage using address fields, address entries are now more prominent. They will be displayed under birth, death, and marriage places or appear when hovering of a event place (in the Default Format) and will by output in most reports, in books, and various report scripts.
If you need to delete place records, this version will now warn you if the place is in use by any individual or family records. You can then decide to delete or not delete that place. If you do delete, it will remove the uses of that place in other records as well. Previously it would leave the place name in other records, which would cause GEDitCOM II to recreate the place record the next time the file was opened.
Version 1.7 warned you every time you entered a new place name into an empty place field to verify you really want to create a new place. This warning is now skipped for files with less than 50 places (because you probably do want a new place when starting a new file) and a preference can turn off the warning altogether if you prefer.
The "File Information" report includes number of place records and book style records (these were left out by mistake in Version 1.7).
GEDitCOM II Enhancements - here are remaining (mostly minor) improvements:
64 bit version - GEDitCOM II is now 32/64 bit universal app. Running on 64 bit processors should be faster (although not very noticeable for common genealogy computing tasks) and work better with large files.
Updated to latest version of the Media Browser window.
Double clicking a deleted individual still visible in a tree will now not open a phantom record.
New "Import→GEDCOM File..." menu command. It could be done before using the "Open" command, but some new users got stumped by lack of an "Import" command. Also, when you open GEDCOM file from another source, you are asked if you would like to validate the data (it is usually a good idea with unknown quality GEDCOM files).
Each type of record (e.g., individual, families, reports, etc.) now has separate preference to remember its window size. The window sizess can be tailored to type of information in each record type.
When sorting individual events and attributes, dates for attributes are now assumed to be a date period (e.g., FROM one date TO another) unless specifically stated as a range (e.g., BET one date AND another). Date periods sort by the first date in the period rather than the midpoint.
Version 1.7 seemed to have lost the remember changes to column order and column size in the index window. That feature is now restored. The option is also added to the bounding box field in place records.
After deleting records in the index window, the next one is selected. Before nothing was selected.
Default Format Changes (and some other interface format changes):
Rewrote script to open a place in GeoHack to work with many of the new latitude and longitude entry options.
Uses up and down arrows to indicate further ancestors or descendants (used to have plus signs). Furthermore, you can customize the indicator strings using the Editing preferences of GEDitCOM II.
A "Map"button in the "Events" pane will map events for that record.
As mentioned above you can add lat and lon to all addressesand addresses are displayed in more places.
Scripting Improvements
New mapping scripts and place editing script.
Script to export GEDCOM file with all notes embedded in records.
Script to merge all identical notes.
Book script improved to show addresses, fix some spelling and event errors, and various other improvements.
The scripting description command now works with the new place and book style records.
An application scripting property can get or set the main volume.
The findStructures command can find all INDIEvents, INDIAttributes, INDIOrdinances, or FAMEvents in a single call.
The GEDitCOMII module for python scripting was improved and is no documented in the GEDitCOM II help.
GEDitCOM Editor and Interface Language Improvements:
The sizeToFit command works better with text fields. Before they could be off by a line because of scroll bar size.
new format property for some cells can use "%!" to compact lines of text to a single line for display in another field (used to display addresses in a single line).
New read-only variables for the current printing margines #printLeft$, etc.).
