In other threads we have had several suggestions for changes to the way locations and addresses are handled within Legacy. I thought it might be an idea to made a common thread where all the ideas can be centralised. I'd also like to throw my own suggestion into the ring. If all these suggestions become incorporated into Legacy 8 (or Legacy 9 or...) then I believe that the program will be much improved.
So far we have had one person suggesting that locations be tied to a latitude and longitude, with the ability to show changes over time. Someone else suggested having more than just long names and short names, perhaps having several variations which can be used in different circumstances. A third person suggested having named formats for locations, so you can build specific formats for specific reports. None of these are mutually exclusive and all semm useful. Hopefully, my idea will fit in as well. I believe that Legacy should include a country table. This would contain, as a minimum, the country name and the number of defined fields which that country's locations should contain. It would also probably have a way for the user to name those fields. So: USA, 3, State, County, Town England, 2, County, Town Australia, 2, State, Town New Zealand, 2, Island, Town etc. Each user can have different layouts if they wish. Obviously, more than these fields could be used as now, up to 9. The basic implementation would be easy, integrating it into the whole of Legacy would not be. If anyone else wants to throw ideas into this thread, feel free. If anyone from support wants to take the ideas and massage them into a single, integrated suggestion that would be great. Over to everyone else Tony 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/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp 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
