All Location Services Broken

You sure it was Apple turned it off? Why would they force you to upgrade when all the upgrades are free anyway?

HelloTerence Devlin. I do not care who switch off this service... but apple as product owner and developper should give us at least an answer. I spent a lot of time organizing my photos. It is true that they have newest options but I just do not want to follow the way of one year big update they propose. This is why i think they should ,at least ,give some support to their old versions.

I will not update in any case and i will consider twice about using any other apple software if they do not solve this issue.

I do not care who switch off this service... but apple as product owner and developper should give us at least an answer.

Have you asked them? You're not talking to Apple here, you know that, right?

It seems that all the Google services that my iPhoto 9.4.3 (under 10.8.5) relies on for Location features, including the POI database for assigning a location and the location maps, have been turned off. I can no longer look up a location, I can't see any maps, and I can't even select a location in Places and click "Show Photos" anymore.

What happens when you try? Are you seeing an empty map? DO you get an error message?

Empty maps can be caused by a firewall or antivirus software blocking the connection to the map servers. For example Little Snitch or Kaspersky have been reported to be causing broken map services.

Have you recently enabled any AV software or firewalls?

I wrote them already. No answer after 3 days. I do not know how fast they are answering.

The only program i installes during the last 2 weeks was Bettertouchtools. I do not use any antivirus or software like little snitch. I think it is not an issue of my pc up to other comments.

Thanks for the input

To link to another thread with the same question: iPhoto places maps broken

I have not seen any formal announcement by Apple. The system status page is showing all services as working: http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

I do not see iPhoto on the list, only photos app. As we all know they use the apple maps and not google maps as thr version i am using. It could be that they did not realized or simply they do not care at all.

My aperture version suffers the same issue. So I think it is more related to google than to apple.

I can assure it is not the library or my mac. This is why I point to apple or google.

Which Aperture version do you have?

In Aperture 3.6 it takes a very long time for the maps to load. Sometimes I have to wait for ten minutes, before the maps will show. But if I wait long enough, they maps will finally load. But the first few minutes it looks like this.

It must be something to do with older systems and older iPhoto versions since the Location maps are working fine in both my iPhoto 9.6.1 and Photos 1.0.1 libraries on 10.10.4.

In case Apple are reading these posts. I have the same issues and make a lot of use of the map feature. It has suddenly disappeared and there must be a reason - I am very happy with iPhoto 9.4.3 and have spent many hours organising my picture the way I want. Like other users I would like to know how to restore the map feature.

In case Apple are reading these posts.

They don't so tell Apple via http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html

To file a bug repot where you may get an answer, use the bug reporter in the developer forums, but that would require to write a detailed bug report:

See: Detailed and Effective Bug Reporting | Apple Support Communities

I am using Apertute 3.4.5 on ML. This version shares the google maps function with iphoto so I guess, as someone mentioned before, that it must be something related to the google maps API. I reported again the issue to apple. I will give them some more days because i do not want to update to yosemite. Furthermore, nobody can warranty that after upgrading to yosemite and installing aperture 3.6, the maps stop working there after some months.

Apple will not give a buck anymore for aperture or iphoto... it is understandable having a brand new app on the frontline.