Re: feature request
Bret Busby <[email protected]>
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On 4/4/22 6:40 am, Nick Hall via Gramps-users wrote: > 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. > > > > Just to clarify - I was not criticising what exists - I was trying to make the point that restricting a geographical location to only three descriptors, as was suggested in the message to which I was responding, can make using the software less user-friendly, as it would not provide sufficiently for many people. -- Bret Busby Genealogical DNA Research Participant and Campaigner Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) .............. -- Gramps-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users https://gramps-project.org