Photos not allowing to add or edit location data

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Photos not allowing to add or edit location data

The new Photos app does not allow location data to be edited or added.

For those users who own a camera without a GPS, there is no way to add the location data to the photos which defeats the purpose of having the map function if some/most/all of your photos can't be included.

I spent a great deal of time updating my locations, using the Location Manager, in iPhoto only to find that they have been replaced with simplified locations. For example, Waterworld has been replaced with a Suburb/State location.

The new app has severe limitations compared to iPhoto. As bad as iPhoto was, these limitations make it extremely hard to work with.

Apart from the location issue above, photos can only be sorted by name. In Event view, any new events are added to the bottom of the list. Faces are ordered by, what appears to be, the number of photos associated with the face. So when your adding faces from the suggested faces, one has to look closely at the faces to find the face to associate the photo with. If the library contains a lot of Faces, then this can be a difficult task. Also, when selecting faces from the Suggested Faces list, multiple faces cannot be selected and each photo has to be moved, or ignored, individually.

I had a smart list which showed all of the un-named faces but that has gone and there doesn't seem to be a way to show all of the photos with named faces other than to go through each photo individually.

Posted on Apr 13, 2015 5:33 PM

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Apr 13, 2015 5:39 PM in response to mrtymoose

For those users who own a camera without a GPS, there is no way to add the location data to the photos which defeats the purpose of having the map function if some/most/all of your photos can't be included.

You can still use iPhoto to tag your locations and import the photos into Photos afterwards. It's only speculation on my part but I'm sort of expecting this feature to return.

I spent a great deal of time updating my locations, using the Location Manager, in iPhoto only to find that they have been replaced with simplified locations. For example, Waterworld has been replaced with a Suburb/State location.

I haven't found this to be the case.

Apart from the location issue above, photos can only be sorted by name.

No they can be sorted by date.

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Apr 13, 2015 11:04 PM in response to Winston Churchill

Thanks for your reply.

If I have to use iPhoto, then that begs the question: Why would I want to upgrade to the new app?

It's not a good situation to have to use the old app (iPhoto) just to geotag my photos.

When I refer to the sorting issue, I had the sidebar visible. When not using the sidebar, the organisation is still not very good. For instance, to find my wedding photos, I must locate the event by drilling down through the years, collections etc. Or to view ALL of the photos taken at my house is now impossible as the location is now the same as my child's school!

As for the date sorting, I can't change it so that the most recent appear at the top. I must scroll down.

It's a terrible app given what iPhoto used to provide. I'm using it on my desktop, not a mobile phone. What applies to memorial doesn't, nor should, be applied to my desktop as there are quite different constraints.

By all means, have continuity (or whatever they call it), but don't constrain the desktop app to the capabilities of a mobile. It's just plain silly!

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