I would prefer a variation of Tony's suggestion. The master-file seems an excellent idea but I would not want the program to "pick the appropriate long or short name depending on the date", since I want to present all location names in modern form to be most meaningful to ordinary folk viewing my trees, with an aka button to see other names if they wish.
So I would like to add to Tony's suggestion a global choice in Options>Customize>Locations to show all location names as either the name in the master list or the name at the event Date. John -----Original Message----- From: Tony Rolfe [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 08 February 2012 23:14 To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Event Locations On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:14:16 -0800 Paula Ryburn wrote: > Tony, did you submit the Location AKA suggestion? or something > different? > --Paula in Texas My suggestion was called "Date-linked location names". The basic idea was to have a "Location" master file (or table) with all the tags, Latitude and longitude data etc. and a chain of Long-name/short-name pairs which have a "to" date and their own preposition. If this is implemented we can have a single location, but have the short and long names varying by date, so Location: The generic name for the location to 1837: The, oldest, long, name: a short name for this to 31 mar 1957: A, Different, Long, Name: Another short name to: The, current, long, name: the current short name. To 1837 implies up to and including 31 Dec 1837. A blank date implies to the current date. The Location record would have a location name which may, or may not, be in CSV format. I also suggested that there be a new [Location] for sentence definitions. Obviously, the program would pick the appropriate long or short name depending on the date, defaulting to the location name if either there was no date in the event or if the date was out of range (if I omitted the last line above and the date was after 31 Mar 1957) Seems to meet all criteria, I think? Tony 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
