James Cook wrote: > It seems that the problems with being able to get back out the > information you enter into Legacy with regard to Addresses vs Location > is not limited to the report generators. After looking through the > archives, I gave the 3rd party tool GedView a test. I found that the > mapping inside Legacy and entering GPS coordinates into Google Maps > would show locations as expected, but GedView was not. I tried > updating both the Location and Address with the same coordinates on a > hunch GedView was looking for one over the other. This had no effect. > I sent off an email to the maker of GedView to report this problem. > His response: > > "It appears Legacy is not adding the map information in the correct > place. The snippet you provided has it attached to the address record > instead of the place record. GedView is then performing a search for > the location as it hasn't read the latitude / longitude. I will look > into supporting lat/lon on the address record for the next update." > > Since then, I've ran a few tests, and it appears that Lat/Lon, though > able to be entered into Legacy Locations, is never exported with then. > Seems Addresses are the only entity/types/things that include Lat/Lon > in GEDCOM exports. > >
With respect, James, whilst I do not dispute the important part of what you say, there is no difficulty in getting the Lat/Long out of the Address Book and into a report if the Name Tags Report is used. Whilst it does, to me, seem to be a funny report in which to put it, it works fine. 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/ ____________________________________________________ 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
