Copy location from one photo to another in Photos

There is a user script to extract the Lat/Long so you can enter it - Script: Extract the Numerical GPS Values Using an Apple Script

And Old Toad has compiled a script into an application to copy GPS form one photo to an other - http://www.oldtoadstutorials.net/No.P01.html

And tell Apple what you would like to have added to future updates - every update has more and more in it much of it driven by user input - Product Feedback - Apple

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Photos currently allows you to ASSIGN a location, but I don't see a way to COPY a location from one photo to another, which is what the user asked and what I currently need. So this should not be marked as Solved.

That is the problem with old discussions. The solved mark is two years old, from the very first version of Photos on Yosemite. In with OS X Yosemite we could not even assign a location to photos. We had to assign GPS tags in an external editor, if the camera did not assign the GPS: One year later, with Photos on El Capitan came the ability to assign locations to photos by typing in GPS coordinates into the Info panel or a places name. That was when I wrote this Apple Script, that will read the GPS coordinates from a selected photo and copy them to the clipboard, so we can paste them into the Info panel for other selected photos: Script: Retrieve the GPS Coordinates of the Place of a Photo

Photos on El Capitan allowed Apple scripts to read the GPS coordinates, but the tags were read-only. With macOS Sierra finally came the ability, to modify the GPS tags of a photo using Apple Script. Now I could write the AppleScript that Larry pointed to: Script: Copy GPS tags from one Photo to Other Photos

To use it, collect all photos in an album and drag the photo with the GPS coordinates to the start of the album. Select all photos in the album and run the script. The GPS coordinates of the first photo in the album (in the selection) will be lifted from the photo and stamped on the other photos in the album.

What still is missing - we can modify the latitude and longitude tags, but not the altitude tags of a photo using Apple Script. The altitude tag is documented ans being writable, but trying to modify to gives an error message.

Photos currently allows you to ASSIGN a location, but I don't see a way to COPY a location from one photo to another, which is what the user asked and what I currently need. So this should not be marked as Solved.

Note that copying the textual location description from one photo to the other is not the same, because the textual location description is MUCH less precise than that Lat/Long geo coordinates stamped in the EXIF data (and showing on the map).

That is not yet possible in Photos. You cannot assign locations to photos.

Assign the locations using a different application, for example iPhoto, and only then import the photos to Photos.

The next version of Photos to be released with El Capitan in the fall will allow to assign locations to photos.

See the preview: Apple — OS X El Capitan

Everything in its place.

Photos has been fine-tuned to make it even easier to manage your library. Now you can add a location to a single image or to an entire Moment. Naming your favorite people in Faces is faster with a streamlined workflow. You can also sort your albums — and the contents inside them — by date, title, and more.

Anybody found a quick tip for copying the location from one photo to others in El Capitan?

I often collate iPhone and other photos. To copy the location from the iPhone photo and apply it to the others would be super useful.

YOu can type longitude ape longitude and latitude into the location field of the info panel for a photo. So all you need to do is to extract the numerical longitude and latitude values from your iPhone photo. Export the photo from Photos and lokok at it with Preview. the info panel will show you the GPS.

Tried to do this. A simple copy and paste from preview back into photos. However, photos attempted to recognise the coordinates as a location.

Latitude: 40° 42' 40.932" N

Longitude: 74° 0' 46.5" W

Try it.

PS : It's not in Turkey.

I too want to add location data to multiple photos at once. I'm glad Apple has added the capability to apply a date to multiple photos with El Capitan, but now awaiting the location capabilities. If it's there, let me know what I'm missing! Thanks.

Use a decimal notation, separated by a comma:

I typed the GPS in like this: For example: 40.69004822°N, -74.04506683°W

and got this result:

I posted an Apple Script here to help to copy the coordinates from a photo to the clipboard: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-8541

léonie wrote:

Use a decimal notation, separated by a comma:

I typed the GPS in like this: For example: 40.69004822°N, -74.04506683°W

and got this result:

Thanks for trying. It's fairly close, but a few miles out. You can't take degrees and minutes and decimalise it directly.

Thanks for trying. It's fairly close, but a few miles out. You can't take degrees and minutes and decimalise it directly.

Google Maps will convert it for you. Type your coordinates into the Google Maps search field and you'll see the decimal notation:

When I paste this into the Photos Info panel, I get:

I posted an Apple Script here to help to copy the coordinates from a photo to the clipboard: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-8541

Ok, this is perfect. Thanks so much. I modified the following line.

set clipboard_message to lati & "° " & longi & "°"

This allows me to copy the GPS information off one picture and paste it into another.

léonie wrote:

Google Maps will convert it for you. Type your coordinates into the Google Maps search field and you'll see the decimal notation:

Spot on!

This is all well and good if one has coordinates to start with. All I hoped to do was to add the name of a city, community or neighborhood to older photos, which I can now do individually. I would like to add such information to a group of old photos (picnics, family reunions, etc.). Does anyone have an easy way to do this with Photos in El Capitan?