My Scottish address has 6 fields and this what I allow for Legacy addresses. The base problem is that US addressesi are standardised in a way not used in other countries.
Uk addresses.can vary from 3 - 6 lines, they are not consistent. My current address has 'house name', 'hamlet', 'post-town', ' county', 'postcode', 'country'. The commonest UK address form is probably 'house number + street name', 'town', 'county', 'postcode', 'country'. Joan On 22 Oct 2011, at 23:47, "Jan Roberts" <[email protected]> wrote: > Not in Australia to my knowledge. > > Cheers > Jan > -----Original Message----- > From: Bernhard Scholz [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, 22 October 2011 21:34 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] How to record this location. > > Ron, > > I have to disagree as the 4 field convention is not only an American idea but > also used in many other countries around the world. eg. Australia, Austria, > Germany and if I remeber right in Switzerland. > > BTW, as you live in England what do your neighbours living in Irland, Scotland > and Wales think of this ;-). > > Bernhard > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 1:39 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How to record this location. > > Tony, > > I am tempted to ask what 4 field convention? I do not use this American idea, > and it only affects the Geolocator. It has no effect on anything else. > Indeed the Bing mapping will even take you to the street provided that it > still > exists. Legacy Locations can accept up to 9 fields (I think - without > checking). > The only other thing I do is to set the Location List to read from right to > left, so that I can easy see which people are next to/near each other. > > BTW. being from England myself I learned a long time ago that the 4 field > convention does not work for most of our locations, oh! and I do not put any > of > those extra commas in. > > Ron Ferguson > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > > > > > > 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 > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on > our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
