Question Show only inactive places
- eyolf
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I did it in the hard way and it took ages. I can only agree with you.
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Jacoline wrote: Thumbs up for this suggestion.
I did it in the hard way and it took ages. I can only agree with you.
Out of interest, why did you do it? Inactive places in the table are harmless, and remain available for future use.
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kiwi wrote:
Jacoline wrote: Thumbs up for this suggestion.
I did it in the hard way and it took ages. I can only agree with you.
Out of interest, why did you do it? Inactive places in the table are harmless, and remain available for future use.
I had two reason to do so. Before 1970 Denmark named the regions as Herred and all my places where named Herred and Amt. And it could not be done with replace because it was a whole new region system. And again in 2007 they removed "Amt" with a new region system again. So I fixed all this and used the old phrases with Herred and Amt as source instead. Because all churce books are in this Herred/Amt system. It was very confusing and understandable if you find it too
The second reason is because of if you click on places (ex. Denmark) it will show all the old Herred and Amt as region - which does not exist. And I want my statistics to be as correct as possible
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Jacoline wrote:
kiwi wrote:
Jacoline wrote: Thumbs up for this suggestion.
I did it in the hard way and it took ages. I can only agree with you.
Out of interest, why did you do it? Inactive places in the table are harmless, and remain available for future use.
I had two reason to do so. Before 1970 Denmark named the regions as Herred and all my places where named Herred and Amt. And it could not be done with replace because it was a whole new region system. And again in 2007 they removed "Amt" with a new region system again. So I fixed all this and used the old phrases with Herred and Amt as source instead. Because all churce books are in this Herred/Amt system. It was very confusing and understandable if you find it too
The second reason is because of if you click on places (ex. Denmark) it will show all the old Herred and Amt as region - which does not exist. And I want my statistics to be as correct as possible
Sounds like quite a job, but I do not understand what it as to do with the "Show inactive paces" option, that this RFN is.about.
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1. If for some reason one has had to correct a place name (adding an extra level, spelling, etc.), one wouldn't want the wrong version to hang around.
2. This is probably the most common reason for errors in my list: in the edit window (Google map), if I search for the pre-filled name and it isn't found, I try another spelling, just to get out ouf the Gulf of Guinea, and if I accidentally hit enter, the new value gets added to the table instead of the correctly imported one.
In both cases, the result is erroneous entries that you wouldn't want to have around even if they don't do any harm.
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I'll add two more reasons:
1. If for some reason one has had to correct a place name (adding an extra level, spelling, etc.), one wouldn't want the wrong version to hang around.
2. This is probably the most common reason for errors in my list: in the edit window (Google map), if I search for the pre-filled name and it isn't found, I try another spelling, just to get out ouf the Gulf of Guinea, and if I accidentally hit enter, the new value gets added to the table instead of the correctly imported one.
I agree with you. I am going through my google maps places table on a regular bases to correct or delete inactive places. I would be nice if there was an option to show ONLY the inactive places. It happens to me often that I used the enter button to fast, when the pre-filled name is not showed up yet. Then I end up with a place like Rotterdam, in stead of Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland. I usually correct this immediately on the individual so I end up with an inactive place name. If this one is not pulled out of the places table the consequence is that there are two versions of the same place name. One with all the coordinates, levels and flags filled and a wrong one. So by checking the inactive places it keeps the places table clean and prevent more mistakes.
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I'm only back-porting bug-fixes for either serious errors or one-line fixes into the 1.4 branch.
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Maybe you can give me a hint...
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