Add a new filter on the Fan Chart Tree that colors the tree depending on town birth location
The fan chart is an adorable way to see our ancestors, and the filter by birthplace probably works really well for people who have ancestors from many different countries. The problem is that if your ancestors are from the same country but from different places in that country, the birthplace filter will be useless.
What I want is a fan chart that shows your ancestors with different colors depending on which city they were born.
I'm not a programmer myself, but the information is there already. Maybe you could add a new fan chart filter called "Town of Birth" or something like that to make this possible. Ideally, countries should use the same palette of colors as how it happens in the family line view, but I understand this could make the system much harder to do so it's not mandatory to implement it from the beginning.
I think this would benefit lots of people. There are many big countries where migrating inside was as hard as it was migrating outside. And it'd help visualize better where and when our ancestors migrated from place to place.
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I have a monochrome fan chart on FS, but I've also put my ancestors on WikiTree, where one of the (bewilderingly large) array of options is a fan chart colored by lower-level jurisdictions.
I played around with it a little when it first came out, about four years ago, but haven't looked at it since (until just now). It's ...amusing, but not actually particularly useful for my usual methods. It's also really easy (for me) to get annoyingly bogged down in the details. (Such as, in the above example, the colors are in rainbow order applied alphabetically to the counties -- but counties aren't in alphabetical order geographically. Can't it color them so that neighboring counties have neighboring colors?)
In other words, I'm not sure that it would be a good use of FS's limited resources to come up with a more colorful fan chart for those of us with geographically-homogenous ancestors.
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