Moving to a place name stops any movement and looks straight down at the new location. Why?
During development we found that maintaining the previous angle of view, movement, etc was likely to result in the selected place quickly disappearing out of sight or not even appearing in the view in the first place! Under some circumstances it was even possible to mistake a neighbouring village for the selected one. Another problem was that the Gazetteer may hold the location for the centre of a parish with the village itself near the edge of the parish if the viewpoint is too low all you may see is an area of fields. With all this in mind, we decided that a high overhead view (with North up the screen) made most sense and allows one to easily re-orient oneself.
