John B. Lisle schrieb am 03.12.2013 20:25: > Pam, > > Please indulge me to talk about Location in > Legacy 8. Actually, little has changed since > Legacy 7 but many users do not have a strategy > for locations and mapping and such. >
> --> Sometimes, neither works. This is when I go > to Wikipedia or Google to have one of them try to > show me where the place is. Then "transfer" those > coordinates to Legacy. I will make a lot of use > of the Bing satellite views to try to place the > pin at the most favorable location. > > Once I have the location resolved, I will then > create a new location with the historical name, > prefixed by the current name. When editing the > name, I check the box that says do not automatically geocode. > > Then I go to the present day location, showing > the pin where the place is, then move to > historical named place and right click the pin to > the same place. Then edit the location to remove > the prefix new name which I only added so the two > places were next to each other in the place list. > > This may sound confusing, but once you have done > it once or twice it becomes easy. And you can > figure out shortcuts to the process. > > I have done 1000s of locations using these techniques. So where are two places in your database when where is actually only one? Perhaps Legacy should not include only long and short names for a place, but also historical and romanized names - simply prepare Legacy for international use. For example Volgograd: it's actually ВолгограÌд, it's historical name is ЦариÌцын​, the romanized name is Volgograd. Perhaps alternative names could be used too, like for individuals, then the names Tsaritsyn and Stalingrad could be added. It would be beautiful to have the possibility to not just choose short location names in reports but also choose historical and add some alternative names in brackets. 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
