Longest US City names...

[Richard Kreiss]

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Behalf Of Kenneth Brody
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 11:30 AM
To: Mike Schwartz
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Subject: Re: Longest US City names...

On 11/15/2011 11:11 AM, Mike Schwartz wrote:
>       Since the list has been slow this week, I thought I would pass 
> on this bit of trivia, for those of you who always wondered how long 
> to make the city fields in your databases:
>
> The<http://geonames.usgs.gov/faqs.html#23>  US Geological Survey's 
> database has these as the longest non-hyphenated community names, with 
> the number of
> characters:
>
> Mooselookmeguntic, ME (17)
[...]
> These are the names that include hyphens:
>
> Winchester-on-the-Severn, MD (24)
[...]
> Kentwood-in-the-Pines, CA (21)

I was wondering why the list didn't include some local cities around here,
and then I realized that they don't include a "the".  (Such as
"Hastings-on-Hudson" and "Croton-on-Hudson" rather than
"...-on-the-Hudson".)

--
Kenneth Brody

Have you considered a field size for e-mail addresses?

I had to set it to 75 for one client and that just makes it.


Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting

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