Kirsten, Whilst agreeing with what you say, may I point out that the mapping will work with pretty well any location format which one chooses. There are, however, problems with the Geo-Locator when the four-field convention is not used.
Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Kirsten Bowman Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2011 5:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Locations Julia: It seems you’re getting quick partial answers to your initial question because it’s a very complex issue. Legacy is basically designed to work with a 4-part location field consisting of City, County, State, Country but it will accommodate much more (or less). If any of those four elements are missing you can add placeholder commas to flag the missing data. The benefit to this system is that it will work well in conjunction with some other features such as mapping. There are also downsides to the 4-part location arrangement which you’re seeing now. Many users dislike the way placeholder commas appear in reports; lots of people like to include full street addresses in the location field which aborts the City, County, State, Country format to some degree; frequently you can have a perfectly legitimate location containing fewer than four elements—or many more than four; and sometimes you may have a location like “New York” and need to identify whether it’s the city or the state, or you could have “(at) Sea, Atlantic Ocean.” Legacy is very versatile. You can put just about anything you want in the Location field and it will transfer in a GEDCOM without a problem. Most of us have tried various location data entry styles and picked the one(s) that work best for whatever we want to produce whether it’s a website, specific report, map, or whatever. There are many (and conflicting) *recommendations* about how to use the Location field but there are no set *rules*—only consequences associated with one method or another. Experiment with some of the options and see how they work for you. If you eventually decide you want to change the style it’s very easy to do global changes from the Location List. Kirsten From: julia _ Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2011 1:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Locations I guess I don't understand where is the harm from adding the word county. Does this mess up my Gedcom should I choose to submit one somewhere/to somebody? Julia -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Locations Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:57:07 -0800 “, how do I know that the first word is the name of the county and not the name of a city?” You don’t, that is why I always ADD the word County in ALL cases. I think it is just plain stupid that these mapping sources have gone to this method. If one does NOT know about this method, then they will not know if it is the City or County that is being used. Thanks, David C Abernathy Email disclaimers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.SchmeckAbernathy.com == All outgoing and incoming mail is scanned by F-Prot Antivirus == 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
