Wrong location for iPhone photos

Are these new or old photos? This was a reported problem with iPhoto '08 that I believe has been solved with iPhoto '09 - the only way to correct it is to do it photo by photo

LN

You can do it in iPhoto - select a photo and click on the location and on new place

You might post in the iPhoto forum re the location problem - iPhoto '09 seems to be fine re locations - the phone may be putting the sign wrong for some reason

I've only seen one other post on this for iPhoto '09

LN

Add me to the list of people with this problem. I have taken photos with my 3G iPhone with Location Services on, but the pictures are showing up in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, rather than in Greece.

You might post in the iPhoto forum re the location problem - iPhoto '09 seems to be fine re locations - the phone may be putting the sign wrong for some reason

Now I've seen three posts - but these two look like a potential iPhone issue to me not an iPhoto issue

LN

Same problem here. I took a bunch of pictures with my iPhone in Chicago and while most of their locations were really accurate a few appeared to have been taken a few miles away in places I've never been to.

Error of a few miles probably are simple errors - I've had my car GPS tell me I was driving in the Ocean a few time (I was not 🙂 ) and usually go away in a few minutes

The ones these folks are talking about sound like potentially a wrong sign on the GPS data - an actual error in recording the data

LN

I, too have a mix of accurate and totally off photos. the totally off appear to be +/- errors and MIGHT have been taken with 2.1 software rather than 2.2 I don't remember when I upgraded.

I am also having a problem with iPhoto placing photos in the wrong place.

For example:
Using EXIF Viewer in Firefox, I get the following GPS information for an image -
# GPS Latitude Reference = N
# GPS Latitude = 39/1,30/1,12087/2500 [degrees, minutes, seconds] ===> 39° 30′ 4.8348″
# GPS Longitude Reference = W
# GPS Longitude = 79/1,25/1,6159/2500 [degrees, minutes, seconds] ===> 79° 25′ 2.4636″
# GPS Altitude = 704/1 m = 704 m

The information as contained in iPhoto is as follows for the same image:
GPS Latitude: 39.501343 degrees N
GPS Longitude: 79.417351 degrees E
GPS Altitude: 704.00 m
Place: Oakland
Garrett
Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu
China

Notice that the longitude shows W in EXIF viewer and E in iPhoto. I was in the west.
Another interesting thing is, I was near the city of Oakland in Garrett County Maryland, so part of it is correct.

The picture before this image is correctly place as is the picture immediately after this image.

Random thought: Is there any chance you've got an "event" that mixes photos on one side of the atlantic with photos on another side? If the same "event" contains some pictures that are somehow missing tags, it seems like iPhoto may try to place these at the "average" location of the event... which may be in the middle of the ocean. (This is just speculation, but it could explain the behavior that you -- and I -- are seeing.)

Same problem here. According to iPhoto, my photo was taken in the Atlantic. I looked up the EXIF data in iPhoto with option-command-i. It says:

GPS latitude: 46,540333 N
GPS longitude: 3,1311667 W

If I search this location in google maps with this query it shows the correct location: 46.540333, 3.1311667 (central France)

So, this seems to me like an iPhoto issue, not an iPhone one...

Robzim

Welcome to the Apple user to user assistance forums. And if you flip the sign to negative on the longitude where would it be? That is the problem with some iPhoto photos

If you are convinced that it is an iPhoto problem then the users here can not help - go to Apple - iPhoto menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback or call Apple care. We can help you use iPhoto - no one here can fix it

LN

I definitely have this problem with both iPhone pictures and geotagged pictures. See: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1914573&tstart=0

Sometimes the photo initially appears in the right place (i.e. right after import), but migrates to somewhere else (e.g., center of the U.S.) after iPhoto does some additional "thinking." (Note that rebuilding the library does not seem to make any difference.)

This is definitely an iPhoto problem (although I suppose I couldn't rule out there being an iPhone problem as well).

-Mike

you can edit the photos by using GPSPhotoLinker program its for mac

i think that is the only solution till now

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