Bill, You are doing nothing wrong. As far as I know the Geo Location Database is not compiled by Legacy and is very much American - even the European files. The fact is, it does not wok correctly for most of Europe, unless one is prepared to enter inaccurate data for locations.
As I have said before, I rarely use it, and where I need a location I use Multimap (Now Bing) or Google Maps. My advice, don't waste your time. Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________ Create your Website with Legacy, see Tutorials at: http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ ____________________________________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Wood To: [email protected] Sent: 24 January 2010 04:04 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] GEO Updates Coming? Hello, I have tried this (see below) and it doesnt seem to have worked. Could somebody please advise what I have done wrong. 1. Copied all Geo*.txt files 2. Renamed Geo*.txt to Geo*-Alt.txt 3. In the counties file replaced all Aberdeen with Aberdeenshire and replaced United Kingdom with Scotland - It was interesting to note that Scotland did not get a mention in my txt file despite a very specific note at the top of the file saying that all possibilities were covered. Something wrong with the files that came on the install disk perhaps ? I then opened Legacy and expected to see Aberdeenshire instead of Aberdeen as a county However Legacy still insists that Aberdeen is a county and Aberdeenshire does not get a mention. Same with Banff and Banffshire I even added a new shire called AAAAAAAshire and Legacy cannot see this either. I then created a new country called AAA and this too is not detected by Legacy What am I doing wrong please ? Regards Bill On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Wendy Howard <[email protected]> wrote: Hi John, > All I am looking for is the ability to add manually, more place names > to the GEO list Such a thing has been mentioned at least twice in the past few days - did you not see it?! Under this very subject line, I posted yesterday: "Dave Naylor told us how to do this yesterday under the subject "Customizing Location Format". You can read his post at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01482.html if you missed it." If this doesn't work for you, please let us know what you did and where you had problems, so that we can try to help you further. :-) Kind Regards, Wendy Howard -- Kaiwaka, Northland, New Zealand http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wendyh65/ <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Ewendyh65/> 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
