Hello all, this might be easily possible if BK could link to some geographical database like GOV. And Aachen never "was" Aix-la-Chapelle, this still is just it's French name, just like Aken is it's Dutch name. The same goes for e.g. Liege which in Dutch is Luik and Lüttich in German. A good place name database could keep track of this. Yours Heiko Am 20.06.2015 um 12:55 schrieb J. P. Gilliver (John) via: > Would need the ability to enter place histories, though. A huge change! > > I'm using BK in the year 2045. I enter someone born say in 1950; I start > to enter Newc, and select "Newcastle, Northumberland, England" from the > choices that pop up. > > I enter their death in 2010. I select "same as above" for the location, > and "Newcastle, Tyne & Wear, England" appears ... > > Similarly for places that change name rather than county (or country!): > wasn't Brighton called Brighthelmstone at one point? And Aachen used to > be Aix-la-chapelle, of course. > > It would avoid all the angst about how to enter placenames that have > different names and details over history, but are the same place, if the > prog. itself could be told about the changes (what and when), and > automatically show the correct one for the event being entered. > > Well, I can dream, can't I - it won't be our concern (-:!

On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 21:29:41 +0200, Heiko Ahlers via <[email protected]> wrote: >Hello all, > >this might be easily possible if BK could link to some geographical >database like GOV. > >And Aachen never "was" Aix-la-Chapelle, this still is just it's French >name, just like Aken is it's Dutch name. The same goes for e.g. Liege >which in Dutch is Luik and Lüttich in German. A good place name database >could keep track of this. If one do doujbleclick to the field of location, there are many otion to add more information, I'm not happy with it total, but it is a step forward to what we want her. -- Otto Jørgensen http://home.online.no/~otjoerge/ All email is checked by NIS2014