Thanks, Cathy.
Standalone VE comes closer with the dash format (can't find it, but
gives a list of possibilities, one of which is the correct one). Google
Maps works perfectly with either format, so I've changed to the dash
format in anticipation of V7.
Google Maps functionality is important for me because I use TNG for my
genealogy website, and TNG provides event mapping using Google Maps -
i.e., http://www.rocksville.com/tng/getperson.php?personID=I480&tree=weber
Thanks again,
Margaret
Cathy wrote:
You can actually do that search and replace in Legacy but you may want
to do a little more testing a VE seems to give varied results.
Cathy
At 10:11 PM 1/06/2008, you wrote:
Hi Cathy,
Just replace the open paren with a dash and space, and get rid of the
close paren. Two update queries in Access ought to do it. Thanks, Cathy!
Margaret
Cathy wrote:
Hi Margaret,
This format will take you right there so you can look at the houses:
226 Mather Rd, Jenkintown, Montgomery, PA, USA
Just one advantage of just entering a location from smallest unit to
largest ;-)
Your format just lands you in Jenkintown.
But this one takes you right there as well if you want to preserve
the four fields
Jenkintown - 226 Mather Rd., Montgomery, PA, USA
I'm not sure what parsing Legacy is doing. I know Ken was playing
with variations for the USA.
Cathy
At 10:28 AM 1/06/2008, you wrote:
I can't get V7 yet, so I can't try this out myself. Perhaps someone
with V7 could answer this question for me.
I've created a "Residence Address" custom event and use it when I
know an individual's street address. Since street address has been
included in all US census's since the 1880, that's quite a few. I
put the street address in parens after the city in order to comply
with the Legacy-recommended location format (city, county, state,
country location); i.e., "Jenkintown (226 Mather Rd.), Montgomery,
PA, USA" (without the quotes).
If I enter "Jenkintown (226 Mather Rd.), Montgomery, PA, USA" into
Google Maps, Google finds it (and brings up Street View, allowing
me to "stand" in the middle of the street and look at the house -
very cool!). But if I bring up stand-alone Virtual Earth and enter
"Jenkintown (226 Mather Rd.), Montgomery, PA, USA", Virtual Earth
can't find the address.
Does V7 do any parsing of the location field to feed the address
data to Virtual Earth in a format that it understands?
Thanks,
Margaret
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