Can someone explain to me the purpose or even the need for geo-coding now that Legacy has mapping? If I'm missing something I'd like to know what it is but it just seems useless to me.
I enter full addresses (when I have them) in the location field - that includes cemetery names. Like Ron, Jenny and many others, I sort the location list in reverse. When I enter a new location I check the map to see if the pin is where it should be, move it if it isn't and go on my way. I never go to the geo-coding at all (and almost all of my locations are USA). My experience is that the more info in the location field the better job the mapping feature does in pinpointing the place. Often a cemetery name along with town and state will find the exact location of a cemetery without even having a street address. It seems to be a waste of the mapping feature to use the 4 field location format. Why would I want to plot a location to just the central point of a town when I can pinpoint the exact street location and maybe see the actual house (if it's still standing) in street view? Why would I want to just plot the central point of a town when I can pinpoint the exact location of a cemetery? I just don't understand why so many people don't want to take full advantage of mapping but maybe I just don't understand the value of geo-coding. Seriously, what am I missing? Linda M. On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Mike Fry <mike...@iafrica.com> wrote: > On 2010/10/14 16:21, Jerry wrote: >> Thanks - I'll experiment with the right to left sort and see whether I >> like it as well or not. But I thought Legacy and most genealogy >> programs were set up to acknowledge only the four-divisions if you are >> using the mapping features. I didn't think it would know what to do >> with divisions beyond four for geo-coding, even if it displays them? >> What am I missing? Thanks, --Jerry > > Possibly the fact that Geo-coding tends to only work with 4, *modern*, > US, divisions. > > -- > Regards, > Mike Fry > Johannesburg > 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
