<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18975"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>by suggesting it would be a topic for sourcecitations I may have given the wrong impression.  I'm referring to footnoting the location.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>But that said, I'd not have a problem with including it as a note appended to a citation, given it would clarify location referenced by the citation.  But what I was thinking of is tagging named locations mentioned in research with their real world coordinates (specific or general coordinates)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>But I wonder too if how we cite things is going to change given digital realities.  I've argued before that digital access has substantially altered such things, and raised new options/potentials (as well as new problems) that aren't being fully addressed (my opinion).  But that latter bit would be better talked about on a list dedicated to such things.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Larry</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=eshown@comcast.net href="mailto:eshown@comcast.net">eshown@comcast.net</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=apgpubliclist@apgen.org href="mailto:apgpubliclist@apgen.org">apgpubliclist@apgen.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, October 25, 2010 10:25 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [APG Public List] [APG Members] place names</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>With regard to identifying places by GPS, Larry wrote:<BR>>Maybe this is a more appropriate topic for the rather silent SourcCitations<BR>list, because really it's an issue (historical/modern names) that's<BR>encountered more often in that area.<BR><BR>John then responded:<BR>>I think the caution of using them can be addressed in the description<BR>(citation detail?) of what the site is. ... can be annotated as "Grave Site<BR>of..." etc.<BR><BR>John and Larry, I can understand the placement of GPS data in a source<BR>citation when one is citing the location of a gravestone in a<BR>cemetery---especially obscure rural cemeteries and large urban ones. But in<BR>the usual discussion of locations, if and when we use GPS coordinates as a<BR>means of pinpointing rural locales or events (such as Michael's proposed<BR>case of birth on a farm), it would seem to me that the information should<BR>not be relegated to source citations. After all, a GPS location is not a<BR>source. The birth or other event is not a source. The GPS would be relevant<BR>to the source only if we were giving the coordinates for the location of the<BR>*repository* (that being the sense in which we use GPS coordinates in a<BR>cemetery citation).<BR><BR>We typically identify locations of events and residences in our narrative,<BR>no? There, we give the legal descriptions of farms, we state the street and<BR>lot numbers for town residences, and we say that country stores were at a<BR>certain crossroad. If we know the precise GPS location for that farm or<BR>residence or country store, why bury the property's GPS location in a source<BR>note that many people don't bother reading?  Why not give it parenthetically<BR>in the text, as we might do with any other "current location" for a historic<BR>place whose name has changed?<BR><BR>Elizabeth<BR><BR>----------------------------------------------------------<BR>Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, FASG<BR>Tennessee<BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>