Pardon me if I'm overlooking something because I've just begun to use MMFT. But I've some questions about creating custom names to deal with apparent differences in the gazeteers used by Legacy and MMFT.

Why is there a 31-character limit on the length of custom place names? Many of the official names are longer than 31 characters. If I artificially shorten the name in MMFT, it won't be "linked" to the correct name in my Legacy database.

If I just use an "official" name to avoid this limitation, I see only the "official" name plotted on the map.

Ex: "Duoro, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada" plots as "Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada"

I'm very sorry. I have been experiencing some hardware problems with my computer. Please forgive the delay.

There is a 31-character limit because we use a database with a fixed field width. If the field were larger, we would use up a lot of space for blanks.
Perhaps you can abbreviate to "Duoro, Peterborough, ON, CA"?


As for your second post, please provide specific details and I will do my best to reproduce what you're doing on my computer and see if we can come up with a solution for you.