Ron, I know how passionately you feel about this subject because you have been telling us for years, but for me, by using
Town, County, , Country (using the extra comma) for England's locations, I am fulfilling your needs and mine too. Jerry Boot, MerriamFamilyTree.org On February 24, 2015, at 13:59, Ron Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: The GeoLocator is not a Legacy program, but an add-on. It is designed by Americans for America. They try to force the use in other countries by the use of commas, which normally signify a missing geographic level, in order to make it fit. To be clear: for most of the world the GeoLocator does not work. Whilst some users are happy to include unnecessary commas most of us do not, and if we require a location we will go to Google Maps or equivalent. I also use a Gazetteer for my home UK locations. So 1) do not try to make the GeoLocator fit when it doesn’t (if it does then you are lucky) 2) enter the location as you would if you are a resident of the country in question 3) remember that the locations are yours and for you decide the format. eg. for England the Locator insists on UK. or GB as the country, it isn’t, England is, so I do not use either, nor do we have states but counties, hence our general location is town, county, country, which is the way I do it, except I include the house and street as well – since it ain’t going to work why not, and it reads better on websites and in reports. In other words do as you please and don’t let it bother you. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: GeoPappas Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 5:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] How to Properly Format a Location in Puerto Rico I am having issues with locations in Puerto Rico. I have someone that was born in Yauco city (which is in Yauco municipality) in Puerto Rico. In the Individual's Information dialog window, if I click on the little globe icon to the right of the birth location field (Show Geo Location List), it will then bring up a dialog window with the title "Geo Location Database". If I then enter "Yauco" into the city field and click on the "Search" button, it will then find only 1 record. The format that is placed in both the Core and Core + fields are as follows: "Yauco, , Yauco, Puerto Rico" If I then select one of those, it will return to the previous screen (Individual's Information) and enter the information in the format above. But if I then try to move off the field, I will receive the following message: "There was never a county by the name of Yauco in the state of Puerto Rico. (You should check the spelling or the original source documentation.)" If the data was formatted by Legacy, then why is it complaining? There are four buttons at the bottom of the dialog: "OK", "Show County List", "Online County Maps", "Online County Info". If I click on "Show County List", then another dialog window opens with the title "USA County Verification List" and it will bring me to a list of records starting in the state of Rhode Island. If I then scroll through the data, there are no records for Puerto Rico. I understand that Puerto Rico isn't technically a U.S. state, but why is it bringing me here then? So either something isn't working correctly, or I am misunderstanding something. Why doesn't the Geo Location Database work for Puerto Rico locations? How should a location in Puerto Rico be formatted? 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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
