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Your geo database idea may be fine for those Americans who
use it but for the rest of the world it is a non-starter. Personally, I would be
quite happy if it suddenly disappeared.
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Wayne Martell
Victoria, BC,
Canada
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 9:45
AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Prepositions with
location names
The second thing that is needed to clean up locations is an
option to check
all locations versus the geo database and automatically
set a "matched with
geo database" flag. This flag is not the same as
the manually set verified
flag. It would only be set by the compare
locations with geo database
process. Subsequent tests could check
all locations again or just those
without the flag set. Then the
user could search for locations that are not
matched. Non-matches
could be caused by a number of reasons which the user
could address but
all the locations that do match would probably not need
further
verification. This implies that the geo database will have
meaningful and regular updates to make it more useful. One thing
that is
especially needed in the geo database and the Legacy program is
the ability
to make all locations either time sensitive or current.
This should be done
by an option that can be customized by the user.
Once each location has its
true longitude and latitude set it should not
be difficult to switch between
them. This would simplify the
problems with the County Verifier complaining
about date correctness and
not being able to search the time sensitive
location name in the geo
database. In other words, only one consolidated
master geo database
would be needed instead of the two that are involved now
and that one
would have the ability to do time-sensitive lookups, etc. This
capability would apply to all locations and not just USA. I know
this is a
big chunk to bite off but it needs to be done and it will
require some
serious table and programming modifications. It can be
done in steps with
the first two as outlined above to have a separate
master list of location
modifiers (prepositions) and also a "matched with
geo database" flag with
accompanying programs to compare and set such
flag.
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