Break down address into separate fields

[IVORW@…]

Fri Oct 14 03:19:20 2005 IVORW - Ticket created [Reply] [Comment]

Subject: Break down address into separate fields

Currently, OG has two fields which are configured at guide level: country and city. This is not flexible enough, and can't cope with circumstances like "The Tourist Engineer".

While still retaining a metadata field called "address" containing "Foobar House, 2 Foobar Crescent" and suchlike, I propose the following configurable metadata fields:

town city county state country

Each of these is configured at the guide level to be one of the following:

* A metadata field * Turned off * Forced to be a particular value e.g. London

In the latter case, the edit page presents a checkbox against the forced value. This will enable us to have addresses in "Richmond, Surrey" in the London guide for example.

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Sun Oct 30 10:05:39 2005 IVORW - Correspondence added [Reply] [Comment]

Starting to work on this one. Please let me know of any relevant points.

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Sun Oct 30 14:08:25 2005 IVORW - Correspondence added [Reply] [Comment]

A patch is ready (attached)

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[EarleMartin]

If we're going to be easy for people to use around the world, we should probably allow people to name the component fields of the address themselves.

See http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/postal.html for an introduction to a world of pain!

[ivorw]

I'm reviewing this in the light of Earle's comments.

[ivorw]

I am hosting a demo of this with London data at http://www.nurflax.net/cgi-bin/openguides/wiki.cgi

Guide is configured with address_format = "street,town,city,county,country,postcode"

Presets are city and country

Please feel free to play :)

[ivorw]

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