[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] finding village endings in map database
Jerry Frank
FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca
Sat Sep 16 15:05:27 PDT 2006
He is referring to http://www.sggee.org/members/web_map_index_Poland
but it would also apply to http://www.sggee.org/members/web_map_index_Volhynia
Jerry
At 12:33 PM 16/09/2006, Matt Warner wrote:
>Which web page is this?
>
>One of the places which can be confusing is that you cannot perform
>searches with regular expressions unless you have the "advanced"
>button selected. Normal searches for most databases have a full-text
>index they can reference, meaning they can find some variations, but
>you cannot use the regular expressions (wildcards) with these normal
>searches.
>
>Matt
>
>
>On Sep 16, 2006, at 8:40 AM, Jerry Frank wrote:
>
>>At 09:25 AM 16/09/2006, Mike McHenry wrote:
>>>I'm trying to search the Russian-Poland map database for villages.
>>>I'm
>>>having no success with the wildcards. I have used the other
>>>databases with
>>>success. In these particular searches I'm trying to find villages
>>>ending in
>>>czowa, szewo, etc. Can someone help me out?
>>> Mike
>>
>>
>>Mike,
>>
>>I think that our village database search is not currently set up to
>>accept wild cards. I am copying this reply to Matt, our technical
>>administrator to see if it can be set up for such a search. It
>>would certainly help in cases where spelling is uncertain.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
>>FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca
Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca
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