Tony, The way I see the problem is that many people, like myself, wish to use the Location field for the Address at which, say the person is born. This information to appear on charts and reports and to transfer via gedcom from the Location field.
The only way I can see this happening is if Legacy provide via General Settings a table substitution. Address for Location and a way to populated and depopulate each table on the exchange. There are many problems with this, as in my case the address table is empty and some people, I am sure use both but not necessarily in the way that leads to standardisation. If it works, leave it alone would be my suggestion. Alan -----Original Message----- From: Tony Rolfe [mailto:geneal...@gillandtony.com] Sent: 21 November 2011 05:15 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Consolidated location and address suggestions 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 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
