davidfromnuneaton

Q: How to identify home in places

my Mac has started to incorrectly identify my home location when I take photos on any of my IOS devices. I'm having to correct hundreds of photos.

Wat hat gone wrong and is there a quick fix to replace the incorrect details.

 

thankd

MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Mar 17, 2015 12:24 PM

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  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Mar 17, 2015 2:38 PM in response to davidfromnuneaton
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    Mar 17, 2015 2:38 PM in response to davidfromnuneaton

    How are you connected to the internet at home? WiFi or by ethernet cable?  How far off is the location?

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  • by davidfromnuneaton,

    davidfromnuneaton davidfromnuneaton Mar 18, 2015 9:30 AM in response to Old Toad
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    Mar 18, 2015 9:30 AM in response to Old Toad

    I connect via WiFi and ethernet, locations is home. Something has changed, when i used to take a photo at home it would display the excat location, street name but now it only gives abbreviation which it must get from from memory somewhere

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  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Mar 18, 2015 10:13 AM in response to davidfromnuneaton
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    Mar 18, 2015 10:13 AM in response to davidfromnuneaton

    I don't know why it varies but here are the locations of a number of pictures that were taken in our house.  You can see how spread out it is:

    iPhoto001.jpg

     

    Have no idea why huge spread.  I don't use the location feature much.  LarryH does a lot and if he pops in he'll be able to address the issue a bit more comprehensively.

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Mar 18, 2015 10:41 AM in response to Old Toad
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    Mar 18, 2015 10:41 AM in response to Old Toad

    I do but I have all GPS cameras so use the data they collect rather than assigning location with iPhoto so have even less experience with iPhoto locations - I only use it to view location, not add them

     

    One thing I do do when I have photos misplaced due to some latency in updating the GPS I pick a photos at the correct location and copy it - then go to the photos with the wrong location and use the "Paste location" command to update them - that works well and is easy (my kind of thing   )

     

    LN