Even a 3 or 4 level place location option per county wouldn't work. In Canada, Ontario and much of the rest of eastern Canada uses a 4 level place locations (city/town/village/township, county/district/municipality, province, country), while the prairie provinces and BC use a 3 level place location (city/town/village/municipal district, province, county). (I'm not sure how the territories are arranged.) Similar to what Ron Ferguson noted in his example for England, Ontario (and some other eastern provinces) could really be divided into 5 levels, i.e. city/town/village, township, county/district/municipality, province, country. For Canada, they would have to provide the 3 or 4 location option on a province by province basis.
I know of one geo-database that has encoded all of Canada with the 3-place location (omitting counties), making it essentially useless for eastern Canada, or at least Ontario. In Ontario, there are towns, townships and counties all with the same name, or more commonly townships and counties with the same name, which are not within the same jurisdiction. As a result, if only one of the levels is specified, that geo-database gets it wrong most times. Bill Hillsburgh, Ontario, Canada -----Original Message----- From: Ron Goodwin [mailto:rong1...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 7:42 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Locations, addresses and events Hi Ron, I would prefer an option in Legacy that would allow users to use 3 or 4 place locations depending on the country they are entering information on. I understand that you prefer and only use 3 place locations, so how would you handle the United States locations? I have relatives in Canada, England, Australia as well as the United States and well 3 place locations fit most countries I have some locations within several States within the USA where the same town name appears more that once within the same State and the only way to identify the correct location is by using the County identifier. Any suggestions? Ron Ottawa, Ontario, Canada -----Original Message----- From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:ronfergy....@tiscali.co.uk] Sent: March 8, 2010 18:55 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Locations, addresses and events Carol, It is not a "standard location format" if you are British, or of many, many other nationalities. We abandoned standardisation before it was invented, on the basis that is does not work, will not work, and conflicts with our freedom of expression. My location at one time was "Glossop, Derbyshire, England". The problem is, as you can see, there aint 4 fields, nor is there anywhere where I can stick a comma (not that I would, I hate them, except when used correctly in English). I could also go to the other extreme, should you so wish, where the very old (like before my time) location of the place where I lived was "Winton, Barton upon Irwell, Eccles, Hundred of Salford, Lancashire, England", where Winton is a Hamlet, Barton upon Irwell: a Township, Eccles: a Parish, Hundred of Salford: the Hundred, Lancashire: the County and England: Country. Please bare in mind that some countries had locations nearly 2000 years ago, and most of ours were included in the Doomsday Book cir. 1086. You may care to visit my blog at http://bit.ly/8VDqTc, which was reprinted by World Vital Records btw. for more details. I also note that in the new transcriptions for their new database Family Search are now starting use use correct English locations (more or less). There's hope yet! Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp 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/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
