Ron, I'm just curious how (or what order) you use to put in a street name in the location field. Doesn't that interfere with the sorting of the master locations list?
Also, are you saying that Legacy geo-coding will find the actual street? Thanks, --Jerry On 10/13/2010 8:10 PM, Ron Ferguson wrote: > 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 > > > > 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
