John B. Lisle schrieb am 03.12.2013 22:22: > Randy, > > Sorry, that is above my pay grade... ;-) > > I do not know or remember why this was done, but I too would like to see this > changed. As it is now, Legacy seems to be converting back and forth between > decimal and dms a lot. > > I know when I enter the cemetery coordinates from FindaGrave, or coordinates > from Wikipedia, I need to do the conversion. > > Considering that the Gedcom 5.5.1 standard is for decimal coordinates, it > should > be better for Legacy's internal format to be Decimal. > > The issue may be that the internal standard for the GeoDB is DMS... > > I know I would be willing to put up with a conversion if we then could work > on a > consistent unit, as long as a tool continued to exist to convert DMS to > decimal. >
In my eyes, Legacy can convert coordinates back and forth as it sees fit. I would rather see a more comforting way to input coordinates. I spend the summer to give every of my 2400 places in my database a coordinate. The US places worked fine as expected, but for Europe ... I gave up and used the Internet. It would be nice to have a little bit of automatic conversion. In almost all cases you find coordinates like "39.913889, 116.391667" or "39° 54′ 50″ N, 116° 23′ 30″ E" or "54.1543°N 9.6781°E". That is nothing Regular Expressions can't handle, so just copy&paste or drag&drop coordinates into the Conversion Helper or already into the "Latitude and Longitude" section should be enough to convert them into Legacy's DDMMSS.xxx system. Sebastian 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
