All I am looking for is the ability to add manually, more place names to the GEO list John
2010/1/19 Wendy Howard <[email protected]> > That is true, but if you find out where the place was in relation to > places existing today you can get the co-ordinates via Bing or Google > and feed them into your database for future reference. > > Kind Regards, > Wendy Howard > -- > Kaiwaka, Northland, New Zealand > http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wendyh65/<http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Ewendyh65/> > <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Ewendyh65/> > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* "CE Wood" <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* 01/19/2010 1:04:29 PM +1300 > *Subject:* [LegacyUG] GEO Updates Coming? > > > > Using Google Maps is fine, as is Bing - but ONLY for now existent, large > towns. Many of the "older" places are not found by either Google or Bing. > The places John mentioned are in England, which has Ordnance Surveys. > Those are maps showing abbeys, battle sites, old castles, etc. Google and > Bing maps do not show what many historical genealogists are looking for. > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
