Re: feature request

Nick Hall via Gramps-users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.genealogy.gramps.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 03/04/2022 22:59, Bret Busby wrote:
> So, for Australia, geographical categories that would be appropriate, 
> would be Country, State/Territory, Region, Locality - as examples.

Yes.  All of these are geographical or administrative regions. We would 
keep these as sub types below a top level type of "Region".

When I created the current list, I wrote down as many descriptions of 
regions that I could think of, and the list is incomplete.  It is 
missing Prefecture, Townland and almost certainly others.

We don't really want to burden our translators, and some of the 
translations are country dependent.  In many cases it doesn't even make 
sense to translate place types.

A broader top level category may well be all that most users require.  
They are interested in formatted place names, not the types of each 
level.  Of course, anyone interested in the history of places would 
still want to record more detailed place types.


Nick.




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