The main advantages of separating
Place and
Address tables is:
1. geocoding is made much simpler.
The mapping system uses geocoding to insert the
Lattitude and Longitude of a place, so that it can be located accurately on the map. Whilst it may know where
Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales is, I doubt it would know every Building or street address within Swansea.
2. It reduces keystrokes needed to enter a location.
When adding a location to a fact, as you start typing, FH use auto-complete to find the location you want.
e.g.if I wanted
Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales, auto-complete would most probably recognise it within 5 or 6 keystokes (or 1 if you had only just used
Swansea before). Then, when you added the
Address component, another auto-complete kicks in to complete the
Address.
Had you included tha
Address part In your
Place like
High Street, 26, Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales, you would have to type all of the address, before you reached the Swansea part, in order to identify the correct High Street, of which there must be thousands in UK.
If you search the forum, there will be lots of discussions on the various systems used, and the above is the reasons I separate
Place and
Address. Others may disagree
NB I add House number
after Street name, to help auto-complete find similar addresses.