Yes, I agree, it's time for an overhaul, but sadly I doubt it'll ever happen. I gather the master location database comes from a third party, and it's dreadfully out of date and hasn't been updated for years (15 years or more, I think I saw someone mention?) It's riddled with mistakes, omissions and inconsistencies, especially for UK (and perhaps other non-US) users. Unfortunately it's an encrypted DB3 file and to my knowledge no-one has yet worked out the key, which would at least allow us to update it externally (at our own risk of course, and knowing that any FTM update would probably overwrite it).
I know people say you can simply override it and enter locations as you wish, so what's the problem, but I find the hierarchical location arrangement and the Places workspace very useful for research and maintaining consistency - or at least it would be if it could be updated and fixed. Ideally MacKiev would release an update, but even being able to manually update it by a individual user who chose to, for their own benefit alone, would be a huge improvement - all MacKiev need to do is make the encryption key known, though I suspect they can't do that for licensing reasons.
It's potentially a really powerful tool in FTM that's largely wasted because of these problems, in my opinion.
I know people say you can simply override it and enter locations as you wish, so what's the problem, but I find the hierarchical location arrangement and the Places workspace very useful for research and maintaining consistency - or at least it would be if it could be updated and fixed. Ideally MacKiev would release an update, but even being able to manually update it by a individual user who chose to, for their own benefit alone, would be a huge improvement - all MacKiev need to do is make the encryption key known, though I suspect they can't do that for licensing reasons.
It's potentially a really powerful tool in FTM that's largely wasted because of these problems, in my opinion.
