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Q: iPhoto 11 - Problems With Photo Locations

Now that I can finally get back into my iPhoto library, I'm trying to update the locations on some recent photos. With no luck!

 

1) On the photos that have embedded location information, I can see the location name BUT the map is blank. It makes me worry that the location data is defective. Any ideas on how I can get the map to display. (I actually DO see the correct map for a brief instant before it switches to the blank white box you can see in this screen capture)

Screen shot 2015-07-01 at 8.00.54 AM.png

 

2) On the photos with no embedded location data, I usually use my web browser to search for my location using maps.google.com, then I copy and paste the place name (and address) exactly as maps.google.com shows it. Always worked in the past, will not work now! I just tried it with the location name "Parco Acquedotti Appia Antica, Via Lemonia, Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome, Italy". For kicks, I tried "Detroit, Michigan" instead - also no luck!

 

Anyone know what causes this in iPhoto 11, and what I could do to correct it? Thanks!

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Jul 1, 2015 5:42 AM

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  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Jul 9, 2015 8:38 AM in response to Searchcz
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    Jul 9, 2015 8:38 AM in response to Searchcz

    Don't take this the wrong way but have you looked at all of the menu option in iPhoto or the system or the apps you use regularly?  So many users questions are answered there but many don't take the time to peruse the various menus to see what features are accessable thru them.  I include myself in that group also.

  • by Remy Leroy,

    Remy Leroy Remy Leroy Jul 9, 2015 8:58 AM in response to Searchcz
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    Jul 9, 2015 8:58 AM in response to Searchcz

    it does! even if you use Google search engine...

     

    Just type "Apple Feedback" in the search field and the first link proposed is https://www.apple.com/feedback

     

    And you won't believe it, but if you enter "Apple Feedback iPhoto", the first answer is:

    https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html

     

    ;-)

  • by Alvaro_MBP,

    Alvaro_MBP Alvaro_MBP Jul 9, 2015 2:37 PM in response to Searchcz
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    Jul 9, 2015 2:37 PM in response to Searchcz

    It seems that the contract with google to use the API on iphoto ended this month.

     

    As an example I rescued an article from gizmodo about maps on ios.

    http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/09/apple-still-had-a-year-left-on-its-google-maps -contract/

     

    As I wrote before, somewhere, I will not upgrade for the moment. I will see after they release El Capitan. Anyway, the old locations will always be there if i move my data to photos. Does any of you have experience?

     

    Thanks for your help, I never though this forum worked so well.

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Jul 9, 2015 3:33 PM in response to Alvaro_MBP
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    Jul 9, 2015 3:33 PM in response to Alvaro_MBP

    It seems that the contract with google to use the API on iphoto ended this month.

    But it still works on v9.6.1 on 10.10.4

  • by scrutinizer82,

    scrutinizer82 scrutinizer82 Jul 9, 2015 3:42 PM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Jul 9, 2015 3:42 PM in response to Terence Devlin

    Terence Devlin wrote:

     

    It seems that the contract with google to use the API on iphoto ended this month.

    But it still works on v9.6.1 on 10.10.4

    But is it Google Maps on v9.6.1 or Apple Maps?

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Jul 9, 2015 3:57 PM in response to scrutinizer82
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    Jul 9, 2015 3:57 PM in response to scrutinizer82

    Good point, it sure looks like Apple Maps.

  • by Remy Leroy,

    Remy Leroy Remy Leroy Jul 9, 2015 11:09 PM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Jul 9, 2015 11:09 PM in response to Terence Devlin

    If you display The Places'map and do a right-click on it, you'll see that with the iPhoto versions compatible with Mavericks and higher, this location feature relies on Apple Maps instead of Google's

  • by scrutinizer82,

    scrutinizer82 scrutinizer82 Jul 10, 2015 12:06 AM in response to Alvaro_MBP
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    Jul 10, 2015 12:06 AM in response to Alvaro_MBP

    I'd like to dig out this contract to read what were the terms.

  • by zeref1,

    zeref1 zeref1 Jul 10, 2015 11:24 AM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Jul 10, 2015 11:24 AM in response to Terence Devlin

    In that case, one solution could be upgrade to Mavericks (not to Yosemite), and upgrade to on v9.6.1??? That's possible?

  • by Remy Leroy,

    Remy Leroy Remy Leroy Jul 10, 2015 12:02 PM in response to zeref1
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    Jul 10, 2015 12:02 PM in response to zeref1

    Upgrading to Mavericks and iPhoto 9.5.1 could be a solution if Mavericks could still be downloaded from the Mac appStore.... but you can't find it anymore!

  • by gdudek,

    gdudek gdudek Jul 10, 2015 12:09 PM in response to Remy Leroy
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    Jul 10, 2015 12:09 PM in response to Remy Leroy

    It might be possible to set up a proxy locally to fix the requests for Google maps, but based on a quick look with wireshark it's not 100% obvious which of the requests to Google is failing.  In the short term, I am using Lightroom to show the mapping information for my pictures.  Exporting from older iPhoto to versions to Lightroom works well, but new versions of iPhoto preclude that.

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Jul 10, 2015 12:25 PM in response to gdudek
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    Jul 10, 2015 12:25 PM in response to gdudek
    Exporting from older iPhoto to versions to Lightroom works well, but new versions of iPhoto preclude that.

     

    There has never been a way to export from iPhoto to Lightroom. On the other hand, there is the possibility of exporting to the Finder and that's the same as it ever was, so I'm not clear on what you mean.

  • by gdudek,

    gdudek gdudek Jul 10, 2015 3:09 PM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Jul 10, 2015 3:09 PM in response to Terence Devlin

    Older versions of iPhoto (up to 8.1.2 ('09)) stored most of the data, including tags or comments, in Finder-accessible formats that can be processed with 3rd party apps to achieve a compete export.  I use Phoshare 1.5.1 myself which allows me to use iPhoto and Adobe Lightroom back-and-forth, by regularly organizing and exporting material from iPhoto and still retain the ability to modify the files later on with Lightroom  (see http://code.google.com/p/phoshare/ ).

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Jul 10, 2015 3:43 PM in response to gdudek
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    Jul 10, 2015 3:43 PM in response to gdudek

    iPhoto 9 (that's v8.1.2) and iPhoto 11 store the files in precisely the same way. The developer of Phoshare - which is simply a way to export your photos to the Finder and nothing to do with Lightroom at all, ceased development of it as the feature it offered is included in the export panel of iPhoto11.

  • by gdudek,

    gdudek gdudek Jul 10, 2015 4:34 PM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Jul 10, 2015 4:34 PM in response to Terence Devlin

    Don't forget this is about photo mapping. By the tool I mentioned, I found a way to move my iPhoto library  to another tool that lets me do the geomapping and, better yet, I have a way to go back and forth.  If this is helpful to somebody else, great.  Why quibble about pedantic issues?  Use my tip of discard it.  That said, here are some further comments in response to your statements.

     

    I have not attempted to compare how recent versions of iPhoto store image files: note that the issue is metadata, not (just) the photos themselves, so I am not sure you have made the comparison correctly.  The Phoshare developer (Tilman) has explicitly stated that more "recent" iPhoto versions made it  infeasible for his tool to extract metatdata and that's why he stopped development.   A short quote is "With iPhoto 9.4, the amount of data shared with other applications has been greatly reduced, and some features have already been lost."  You can read his posts here and there and specifically the blog post here:  https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/phoshare-users/moWsMcD5SdQ

    There is no point debating this.

     

    Your comment about Phoshare being "nothing to do with Lightroom at all" is wrong. The topic I was addressing is the ability to export data (including full metadata, keywords, faces, etc) from iPhoto for use with other applications, and in my case Lightroom.   Phoshare provides specific hooks that make sharing with Lightroom possible in a manner more flexible than just an "export". This is achieved using linked files (i.e. inode links) rather than copied files.

     

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