Q: iPhotos places map query
Hi. I am using OSX Yosemite 10.10.5 and elected to stay with iPhoto rather than move to Photos.
What I am trying to work out how to do is view markers on the places map that are only from specific photos (ie a holiday). I dont mean the little preview map on the bottom right - I want to be able to take a screen shot of a full screen sized map.
I tried flagging the relevant photos then clicking on the places map while in the flagged folder but it shows every photo marker I have ever taken.
Does anyone know the trick to getting the map to show only specified markers ?
Thanks in advance.
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
Posted on Aug 6, 2016 6:56 AM
HI KT68,
I have been travelling for a few weeks and did not see your follow-up question, sorry.
What I now want to do is drill down further to see just the pinpoints for Monday, then Tuesday etc. So I can make a separate map for each day. (Mainly to work out where I was as I was so disoriented the whole time !!)
That is not as easy in iPhoto as Aperture.
I see two options to create maps only for specific days.
- If you hide photos, they will be excluded from the Places map, if you disable "View > Hidden Photos". So you could create a smart album with a Date rule "Date is not ...." and hide all photos that have not been taken on that day. You can hide photos with the command ⌘L. Now look at the places map. When done, unhide the photos again.
- A brute force approach would be to export the photos for the specific days and import them into a new iPhoto Library just for one day. Then the map would be restricted to the subset of photos for that day.
Posted on Aug 29, 2016 8:46 PM

