How do I merge places in Aperture

I'm going through my places list in Aperture and I've noticed a lot of dupes, don't know how that happened, must be when I imported from iPhoto.
Anyway, how can I merge several places into one? I don't want to lose all that location information.

I have never understood the relationships between:
. Area
. Location, and
. Place
None of these are listed in the User Manual's Glossary.
Additionally, what is the relationship between the names I assign and the names Aperture assigns?
Hello Kirby,
that relationship is a book with seven seals to me too - these sections of the User manual really could be improved.
OT: Some observations on places and locations:
Here is what I found from experimenting with my places, and I am sure most of it you already found out yourself, but I'd like to compare notes:
The location tags (IPTC Image: Location, Country, State/Province, City), seem to be completely ignored by places. If you assign a place, these metatags will not be set, and if you set the location tags, that does not assign a place. Searching with "Place contains" ignores these tags.
The places name I assign (and Aperture assigns) does not show anywhere in the metadata displays - at least I could not find any way to display the place, it is only visible in Places View, and there the displayed name seems to be generic, depending on the zoom level, you have to zoom in to see your custom places name.
Searching for places uses the place names you have assigned, and/or the names Aperture assigned, if you only provided the gps and did not assign place names. What I really like is the hierarchical assignment of increasingly specific place names by Aperture. In the example below I searched for all places containing "Hamburg" and the search returned all images taken in locations belonging to the state of Hamburg, not only the City of Hamburg, even the island of Neuwerk, way out in the North Sea.
Assigning places will add gps-EXIF tags, changing the place will change the gps tags. The gps tags assigned by Aperture to the versions cannot be written to the master files and are not exported with the masters, only with the versions.
- Area ??? I'd like to hear about that ...
Regards
Léonie

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