Boyd, Send in a suggestion. In the meantime you can use Search and Replace on both Lists-Location and Lists - Location Short.
Just make sure your search and replace terms do what you expect before you click Replace all. You don't want "sa" in the middle of words turned into South Australia ;-) ", SA," to ", South Australia," is a safer option. Also make sure you're not replacing the whole field. Yes you have to do it for every state in your database but it's quicker than doing them location by location. Cathy Boyd Miller wrote: > > I am looking for a way to expand the range of states, provinces and > counties that are available to be used in the Master Locations > > Options > Expand/Contract location parts function. > > The /Preview a //l//ist of Codes/names/ gives the corresponding long > and short names for the US states and territories, Canadian provinces, > Brazilian states, and the counties for Ireland (but not Northern > Ireland), England, Scotland, Wales, and Channel Islands (which here > include Isle of Man, a Crown dependency, and Isle of Wight, an English > county). There is also a collection of randomly sorted country long > and short form names. Are these the only locations and short forms > used in this Expand/Contract function or are there more? > > Are these lists able to be amended or extended? Is there an accessible > file of these long and short namesor are they hard wiredinto the program? > > The GeoCountryCodes.txt, GeoStatesCodes.txt and the GeoCountyCodes.txt > files appear to all be part of the main GeoDB function. The > GeoCountyCodes include the UK (England, Scotland, Wales and N Ireland) > county codes, GB (England, Scotland, Wales) counties and Ireland's > counties. GeoStatesCode.txt file includesUS states, Canadian and > Mexican provinces, English, Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Ireland (but > not Irish) counties, Australian state codes, and other data for > Germany and the Scandinavian countries. > > These Geocode files seem to be curious mixtures of data, but they do > not appear to be utilised in the Master Location Expand/Contract > function. > > It would be helpful to be able to modify the Master Location > Expand/Contract lists to include more countries and counties, in > addition to the existing limited collection. For myself, I would like > to add the Northern Ireland counties, the Australian states and the > New Zealand provincial codes. This would save a whole lot of > search/replace actions. > > Does anyone have experience or advice in this area? > > Boyd > > 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
