James, I do not put anything in front of the location. So with your logic of ignoring everything before the first comma... How about my location of... Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, USA . Wont work.
Regards, Tim Rosenlof On 6/11/2010 4:35 PM, James E wrote: > I find that the structure of some events results in an excessive > number of locations that cannot be resolved by geo-location. For > example the location of many marriages is reported in the marriage > license as "at the home of so and so [usually father of the bride], > actual address". Many deaths take place at "Such and such Hospital, > address". Geo-location cannot resolve these because it does not know > to ignore everything from the beginning to the first comma. These > extra entries complicate the auto-complete function for locations. > For example I have a frequently used "location" of "Ontario > Psychiatric Hospital, London, Ontario, Canada". Whenever I want to > specify that an event took place in Ontario, Canada, I have to type > almost the whole location before auto-complete works, because space > sorts before comma. Also I end up with a lot of semi-duplicate > entries in the locations master list, which in my database currently > contains 18,088 entries. I wish that I could separate the description > of the location from the actual location while not affecting how the > complete value is displayed to users. That caveat makes the option of > putting the description into the marriage notes less than satisfactory. > > I would appreciate your thoughts on this. > > > 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
