Junior Zapata
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Q: GeoLocation info editing

All of my photos had the correct GPS location in iPhoto, when I imported them to Photos many (almost half of them) had the wrong geo location.

 

I couldn't find a way to correct that. So I erased them, checked their GPS location in iPhoto to make sure it was correct and re imported them to see if it could get it right the second time but it didn't. The photos still had the wrong GPS location.

 

Why would Apple release an app with a feature like that missing is beyond me. It would have been better NOT to allow the GPS metadata to be imported if they new it did import correctly and that it couldn't be edited in Photos.

 

If some one found a way to edit GPS location please post.

 

Thank you

MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Apr 9, 2015 7:21 AM

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  • by shonanJapan,

    shonanJapan shonanJapan Apr 9, 2015 8:57 PM in response to Junior Zapata
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    Apr 9, 2015 8:57 PM in response to Junior Zapata

    Some user scenarios/features for Geolocations and Photos:

     

    1. Select one or more photos in Photos.app, drag and drop on a map. This insert the Geolocation data inside the image and/or a separate DB (user choice)
    2. Select one or more photos in Finder, drag and drop on a map (Plans). This insert the Geolocation data inside the image and/or a separate DB (user choice)
    3. In Finder, show maps widget for photos with geolocations data
    4. In Spotlight, provide the search interface through geolocation with a widget map.
    5. In Photos, select a photo. Allow the possibility to add or modify manually the geolocation
    6. In Photos, on the map, give the possibility to move the pin geolocating the photo.
    7. Show IPTC fields related to geolocation
    8. Allow for editing of IPTC fields by individual photo or by group of photos.
    9. When clicking on the relevant name in an IPTC field such as the country or city, show the shape contour of the administrative region.
    10. Select a group of photos, add the country, city, etc. (This helps with massive editing of IPTC data in a non overwhelming way). For example, you know that all photos taken between these two dates were all taken in Spain. Then you can refine with subgroups all of these were taken in Barcelona, etc.
    11. Allow for associating the address in the addressbook with geolocation. I have taken photos in a restaurant, I have the address of this restaurant in my addressbook. I can through the UI in Photos.app associate these photos with this restaurant vcard and get the geolocation for free.
    12. Allow for reverse geocoding. Enter an address where the photo has been taken, pop up the geolocation on the map.
    13. Allow for exporting indexes of photos and their geolocation data.
    14. When showing photos on a map allow for selections of photos with certain subcriteria (tagging, people, etc.)
    15. Allow for exporting photos without geolocation (when sharing, email, etc.) Privacy

  • by danielsaiddoudou,

    danielsaiddoudou danielsaiddoudou Apr 10, 2015 12:28 AM in response to shonanJapan
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    Apr 10, 2015 12:28 AM in response to shonanJapan

    I'm french and I don't understand this text :

     

    1. Select one or more photos in Finder, drag and drop on a map (Plans). This insert the Geolocation data inside the image and/or a separate DB (user choice)

    2. Select one or more photos in Photos.app, drag and drop on a map. This insert the Geolocation data inside the image and/or a separate DB (user choice)

     

    These are wishes?

    If not, how do you? I tried and it does not work!

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Apr 10, 2015 12:31 AM in response to danielsaiddoudou
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    Apr 10, 2015 12:31 AM in response to danielsaiddoudou

    This seems to be a "wish list" for features the user wants, not what's actually possible.

  • by danielsaiddoudou,

    danielsaiddoudou danielsaiddoudou Apr 10, 2015 12:35 AM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Apr 10, 2015 12:35 AM in response to Terence Devlin

    I am reassured and fully agree with your wishes!

  • by shonanJapan,

    shonanJapan shonanJapan Apr 10, 2015 12:35 AM in response to danielsaiddoudou
    Level 1 (5 points)
    Apr 10, 2015 12:35 AM in response to danielsaiddoudou

    All of these are features requests.

    There is no way currently to do anything interesting and serious with Geolocation data in Photos (apart of displaying already geolocalized images).

    IMHO, It's a pretty big mistake to release a Photos product without a minimum of location editing (see for example Photo GeoTag in Appstore). At the same time, Apple has a record of releasing version 1.0 with minimum features. We will see. But instead of just complaining, maybe we can help shape the future

    For now Adobe Lightroom is a much better alternative than Photos on the geolocation front.

  • by danielsaiddoudou,

    danielsaiddoudou danielsaiddoudou Apr 10, 2015 12:43 AM in response to shonanJapan
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    Apr 10, 2015 12:43 AM in response to shonanJapan

    I use Aperture to locate my photos.

    After I export photos.

    Finally, I import photos with Photos.

    It works very well but it's not a solution.

    With Iphoto, at first glance, it does not work.

  • by alfredo.marti,

    alfredo.marti alfredo.marti Apr 11, 2015 10:58 PM in response to Junior Zapata
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    Apr 11, 2015 10:58 PM in response to Junior Zapata

    It is absolutely unacceptable that Apple would remove the geotagging functionality from it's main photos app. This is absolutely going backwards at least 5 years. Unbelievable.

  • by Andrew J.,

    Andrew J. Andrew J. Apr 12, 2015 2:20 AM in response to alfredo.marti
    Level 1 (80 points)
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    Apr 12, 2015 2:20 AM in response to alfredo.marti

    Someone said the info comes from the iPhone metadata.  A bunch of my recent pictures of me with my iPhone 5s say I am in Detroit and Philadelphia.  I have never been to either.

  • by Junior Zapata,

    Junior Zapata Junior Zapata Apr 12, 2015 8:17 AM in response to Andrew J.
    Level 1 (25 points)
    Apr 12, 2015 8:17 AM in response to Andrew J.

    It so ridiculous!

    iPhone doesn't get the Geo data always  right -- Maps is terrible! (it gets its geo data from Maps)-- so once I take the picture, wrong geo data gets embedded in the photo many times-- and on iPhone you cannot fix geo data-- , the picture then gets transferred to Photos where ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO CORRECT!!

     

    So Apple wants us to do more work;

    1. Export pictures that need Geo data to be fixed -- because they got it wrong!!--

    2. Import them to an app that will allow the geo data to be edited

    3. Export those pictures from this app

    4. Import them back to Photos app.

     

    Wow! real genius

  • by Samantha Dow,

    Samantha Dow Samantha Dow Apr 13, 2015 1:55 PM in response to Andrew J.
    Level 1 (44 points)
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    Apr 13, 2015 1:55 PM in response to Andrew J.

    If you think that's bad, my imported photos (which were literally pictures of a storefront on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a park on West 4th street, and a korean BBQ dinner on 32nd street), all said I was in Kyrgyzstan.  Seriously.  Apparently is a problem with photos that have been imported from Instagram.  Another friend of mine had all of his instagram photos incorrectly labeled as having been taken in Tibet.  He lives in Queens.

     

    Photographic proof available here: http://twitter.com/verysimple/status/586881228978139136

     

    Even more ridiculous is that the geotagging was correct on my phone.  In addition, when I imported the pictures using a separate application, and then imported them from a folder on my desktop into photos for mac, they were geotagged correctly the second time. 

  • by robertrober,

    robertrober robertrober Apr 20, 2015 11:44 AM in response to Samantha Dow
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    Apr 20, 2015 11:44 AM in response to Samantha Dow

    I've noticed similar issues when importing items from Facebook. I assume that is where the servers are located; Interesting back-door information if true!

  • by Patrick in LA,

    Patrick in LA Patrick in LA Jul 15, 2015 3:14 PM in response to Junior Zapata
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    Jul 15, 2015 3:14 PM in response to Junior Zapata

    iPhoto used to crash on me all the time when editing photos' geolocation.  I don't know if it was because I was using an older Power Mac G5, or because Google Maps was slowing the response time to place name searches, or what.  But this is a feature that needed to be fixed, not dropped.  Especially for geolocating older scanned photos, there's not no option to edit geolocation in Photos.  Awful...

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Jul 15, 2015 4:14 PM in response to Patrick in LA
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    iLife
    Jul 15, 2015 4:14 PM in response to Patrick in LA

    It's not dropped, and is due in the new version in 10.11 in the Autumn.

  • by Antony Warren,

    Antony Warren Antony Warren Oct 3, 2015 11:34 AM in response to Samantha Dow
    Level 1 (14 points)
    Oct 3, 2015 11:34 AM in response to Samantha Dow

    I have this too - if I import photos in Photos direct from my camera, the geolocation is nonsensical - pictures taken by the sea in Cornwall are shown as being in the middle of Belgium! But if I import them into the computer using my ancient Canon ImageBrowser from 2011, then open those files in Photos, it's correct.

     

    So the solution is to import your photos using a different program that supports geolocation first.

     

    How can Apple be so incompetent!

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