Re: [LegacyUG] Geobase international location questions

2013-12-04 Thread Ron Ferguson
http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -Original Message- From: Sebastian Masch Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 8:10 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Geobase international location questions John B. Lisle schrieb am 03.12.2013 20:25: > Pam, > > Please indulge me to talk abo

Re: [LegacyUG] Geobase international location questions

2013-12-04 Thread Sebastian Masch
John B. Lisle schrieb am 03.12.2013 20:25: > Pam, > > Please indulge me to talk about Location in > Legacy 8. Actually, little has changed since > Legacy 7 but many users do not have a strategy > for locations and mapping and such. > > --> Sometimes, neither works. This is when I go > to Wikipedia

Re: [LegacyUG] Geobase international location questions

2013-12-03 Thread Sebastian Masch
John B. Lisle schrieb am 03.12.2013 22:22: > Randy, > > Sorry, that is above my pay grade... ;-) > > I do not know or remember why this was done, but I too would like to see this > changed. As it is now, Legacy seems to be converting back and forth between > decimal and dms a lot. > > I know when I

Re: [LegacyUG] Geobase international location questions

2013-12-03 Thread John B. Lisle
ation I will >google the location and usually find it in a google map and compare it to >the bing map and usually find it by other landmarks that are on the google >map. > >-Original Message- >From: John B. Lisle >Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 2:25 PM >To: LegacyUs

Re: [LegacyUG] Geobase international location questions

2013-12-03 Thread John B. Lisle
Randy, Sorry, that is above my pay grade... ;-) I do not know or remember why this was done, but I too would like to see this changed. As it is now, Legacy seems to be converting back and forth between decimal and dms a lot. I know when I enter the cemetery coordinates from FindaGrave, or coordi

Re: [LegacyUG] Geobase international location questions

2013-12-03 Thread R G Strong-genes
Lisle Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 2:25 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Geobase international location questions Pam, Please indulge me to talk about Location in Legacy 8. Actually, little has changed since Legacy 7 but many users do not have a strategy for loca

Re: [LegacyUG] Geobase international location questions

2013-12-03 Thread Randy Clark
Why won't Legacy use decimal coordinates which are quite prevalent nowadays? On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 2:25 PM, John B. Lisle wrote: > Pam, > > Please indulge me to talk about Location in > Legacy 8. Actually, little has changed since > Legacy 7 but many users do not have a strategy > for location

RE: [LegacyUG] Geobase international location questions

2013-12-03 Thread CE WOOD
...@comcast.net To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Geobase international location questions Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 09:25:55 -0800 Hello, I there any recommended format to list locations for the older Prussian now Pommeranian areas of former Germany now Poland? I’m new to this, and in the

Re: [LegacyUG] Geobase international location questions

2013-12-03 Thread John B. Lisle
Pam, Please indulge me to talk about Location in Legacy 8. Actually, little has changed since Legacy 7 but many users do not have a strategy for locations and mapping and such. --> One of the major changes (and it is rather minor) for L8 is that the GeoDB is now unified. Instead of picking and ch

[LegacyUG] Geobase international location questions

2013-12-03 Thread Pam Gosling
Hello, I there any recommended format to list locations for the older Prussian now Pommeranian areas of former Germany now Poland? I’m new to this, and in the archives from 2010, it seems that it is not possible for the Geobase to properly identify these locations? So, if this is true, are t