Places are empty

Hi Zongpei,

Thanks for posting your question. As I understand it, you're seeing location data for your photos, but they don't appear as expected in the Places tab on your Mac, correct?

Are you seeing any similar behavior in other tabs in Photos, like People or Memories?

Does it help if you quit the Photos app and click Apple menu () > Restart and test again?

If not, I suggest trying this next. Using this tool can help clear up unexpected issues with the Photos app: How to use the Photos library repair tool

Kind regards.

It is bug in Catalina. Several users reported this problem.

Have you by any chance imported the photos to your Photos Library as referenced?

Currently Photos 5.0 seems only be able to show managed photos on the Places map - if we import a photo as managed or consolidate a referenced photo and then restart the mac. I cannot get any photo to show on the Places Map, if import the photos with the preference "General > Copy items into the library" disabled.

No this does not fix it. I have exactly the same problem. It's definitely specific to Catalina

I can confirm that the places map was full of locations prior to Catalina and photos 5.0. As soon as I updated, they are gone (even though the individual photos still show the geotag information). Really sad that this is broken.

-T