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Definitions:
* ''' Tier 1 & 2''': Between a country an the smallest administrative section, we allow for two levels.
* ''' Tier 3 ''': level A settlement consisting of a number of dwellings varying in size from a hamlet to a city. In some countries this will be a division of a the country with a mayor.* ''' Tier 4 ''': The locality people identify themself with. Can be This futher classifies tier 3. Examples would include a neighbourhood within a town or city, or a village or hamlet, on the outskirts of a town or city itself, a borough, ...
* ''' Tier 5 ''': Street or block, so the lowest division needed for postal information.
We would need a country table. This would hold the field definitions for each country including the field names, 'not used' flags, and which fields should be used in the place tree view.
This data could then be used to dynamically create fields in the place editor, place filter and place tree view.
Suggestion (BM)
* we should not work with 'not used' flags. Eg, some people in Wales might want to enter it. A not used flag would make it impossible. In the USA, people from Clairemont [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clairemont,_San_Diego,_California] might like to indicate that, however it is a neighbourhood. Instead I would suggest perhaps a address format default. For UK this would be I suppose:
County
: for Belgium this format would be
Country
: with a format field and people seeing this format, they will understand how they are supposed to enter the place information (note that if Locality equals city it obviously must not be repeated.
'''Questions and Design Decisions'''
* Do we need 2 or 3 tiers between the level with a mayor and the country? We only take 2 tiers. Most countries have more than 2 tiers, but they have little importance for the inhabitants or genealogy. What about Feature Request 4231?
* Many countries have different sub-levels depending on the country. Yes, but Gramps is not a place storing application. In Countries like China you have province or autonomous region or .. as Tier 1. We can only provide one label, the users must himself understand that a locality in an autonomous region should put the name of the region in the Tier 1 (Labeled province) field. Or we could make the label read "Province/Region" if appropriate.
'''Issues specific to the UK'''
* When entering data into the country field there are a few possibilities. "UK" could be used as the country, or one of the constituent countries may be used (England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland). Other terms such as GB, Britain or British Isles may also be used. A thread on the mailing list discussed this [http://gramps.1791082.n4.nabble.com/How-to-imput-UK-address-td2283137.html] and three different methods are used at the moment (UK, GB and constituent countries).
* If constituent countries are used in the country field then the state field will not be used.
* If "UK" or "GB" is used in the country field then the state field may optionally be used to qualify the constiuent country.
* Questions are often raised about how to record London addresses. At the moment the county field could be used to store "Greater London", "London", or a historic county for the London borough. The city field could be used to store "London" or the name of the London borough. The new Locality field may be useful to record the London borough.
* When we upgrade the database we need to take into account the different possible values in the country field.
=== Define one ideal way of working with alternative place ===