Becky & Tom, I deliberately have the full address in the location field for two reasons (1) it displays well in reports and (2) when using the mapping function the actually street is located (provided it is still there, of course).
My brother-in-law includes the house and street part in the description field which also reads well in reports but obviously mapping will only find the town. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -------------------------------------------------- From: "Becky and Tom Heginbotham" <beckyand...@roadrunner.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 11:52 PM To: <LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com> Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] location entry > Thanks Ward. I have decided that I will use township in place of > city/town when necessary. Upon further reflection, I agree that I don't > really need both. > > I am still trying to figure out what direction to go with street addresses > for Residence Events. I like using the Description field for this and it > reads nicely in the narrative, but am wondering if it will hinder any > mapping capabilities down the road. I don't want to invest a lot of time > in making the changes, only to regret it later. I didn't know there was > so much controversy in this topic... I thought there might be a clear cut > answer. :) > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ward Walker [mailto:wnkwal...@rogers.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 3:49 PM > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] location entry > > You will find plenty of discussion in the list archive about whether to > include the street address in the location field. Including quite > recently. > > Regarding the township, my opinion is that it unnecessarily > lengthens/clutters the location, in the case where you know the city/town > name. So: > - Troy Mills, Linn, Iowa, USA; or > - Spring Grove Twp., Linn, Iowa, USA > > ...but not: > - Troy Mills, Spring Grove Twp., Linn, Iowa, USA > > Now I can see that you might want to know that Troy Mills is in Spring > Grove Twp., when comparing individuals, but I think that that will be > apparent during the research stage and need not be emphasized in all the > location fields on all the reports. > > The Geo Location database does not find townships at all. It does find > counties when no city is specified, but then you cannot automatically > select an exact location (such as the center of the county) unless you > first select a city. You can manually choose a location. > > The Geo Location database does not find locations when the street address > (or cemetery name, etc.) is part of the city field. It does find the > city's location when the address is placed separately in a fifth field > (which is ignored). > > Ward > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Becky and Tom Heginbotham > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 12:37 PM > Subject: [LegacyUG] location entry > > > I am attempting to clean up my Master Location database, and I have two > questions regarding the best way to enter location information: > > 1. What is the best way to enter township information? In some > instances I just have a township name and in others I have both a township > as well as a city name. > 2. Because of the way my data was entered in a previous genealogy > program, I have street addresses in my location field in many instances. > This is particularly true for residence and census event information. I > am > wondering if I should clean these up and just keep location for city, > state, > country. I have found that I can put the street address under > “description†> for the particular event. Is making this change worthwhile? What does > this > do to my mapping capabilities? > > Thanks! > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
