You need to decide for yourself if you are going to conform to the
four-field convention for locations, or not. There are good arguments
for both.
I'm a non-conformist in this regard. I use as many commas as are needed
to record the place I have at hand at the time, and I don't use commas
to mark an empty field. This means I have locations recorded with
variations in the number of fields, including simple a country:
England
New Zealand
or just a region/county and country:
Yorkshire, England
Waikato, New Zealand
or even down to a street address (since I choose to not use the Address
fields in many cases):
126 Mays Road, St Albans, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
125 Great Saffron Hill, Holborn, London, England
4 Wellington Court, Albion Road, Hammersmith, London, England
When you're looking at the Master Locations, you can choose to sort
right-to-left (smallest unit first), or left-to-right, which is very
handy for grouping together all the locations in the same country, then
the same region/county/state (depending on the country in question).
Have a think about what YOU want to see in YOUR database, and work from
there.
Hope this helps. :-)
Wendy
Jennifer Hardess wrote on 2/04/2017 13:27:
I am trying to tidy up my locations / place name list. I notice that
if I only have 2 or 3 names in a sequence e.g. London, England or
Horsham, Victoria, Australia I end up with a comma or two before the
place in the master location list. I have my
Master location list starting with the Country e.g. England. I need
advice as to how I can eradicate that comma. Is there a “standards list”
I can refer to somewhere? Especially for England...do I add the county
name or whatever? I have tried looking up the place name on the
internet e.g. using Wikipedia but often “Hundred” or borough is quoted
in the information.
I am in Australia & it is very confusing, & time-consuming!
Thanks, Jen Hardess
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