How to copy or remove location?

We now can write GPS coordinates to Photos using a script. I modified my script for Sierra, to copy the GPS from the first photo in an album to all other photos in the same album, see this user Tip: Script: Copy GPS tags from one Photo to Other Photos

But unfortunately we still cannot lift and stamp the GPS coordinates directly in photos between images, like in aperture.

And trying to change the altitude GPS tage still is giving an error message, but the Apple Script dictionary for Photos is listing the altitude now as read/write and no longer as read only.

So there is still a bug.

Just checking on copying location in Apple's Photos app: has there been any change in the past six or seven months? Is there an easier way yet to copy a location from one photo to another within the Photos program?

Thanks léonie. I suspect yesterday I should have just spent the time to re-learn how to install and use a script, but instead I spent perhaps more time than necessary in Google Maps and copying the GPS coordinates from that.

And when trying to figure out some places in South Korea, I realized that there's no Google Street View in that country, or at least for the places I was looking at. Huh. That was a surprise.

You can purchase the External editors for Photos extension in the App store ($0.99) and use it in edit mode to look at the location details in the inspector pane and you can then enter theminto other photos

LN

You ca remove the location from selected photos from the Image menu:

Image > Location > Remove location.

To copy the location from a photo that has a GPS location assigned, try to find out the GPS latitude and longitude. If you export the photo from Photos, you can see the numerical GPS coordinates in the Info panel in the Finder.

Select all photos taken at the same place and open the Info panel, then write the latitude and longitude in degrees into the location field of the Info panel. Separate latitude and longitude by a space character. use a decimal point for the values, not a comma to separate the fractional part.

I am using an Apple Script to copy the latitude and longitude from a selected photo in Photos, see this User Tip:

Script: Extract the Numerical GPS Values Using an Apple Script

As it also returns the coordinates with comma, I had to replace them by decimal points. But basically it works. Thank you.

The script uses the localisation settings of your System Preferences for Language and Region. It is a lot of work to modify that in an Apple Script, and a pity, that Photos does not understand the Language & Region settings.

But thre is hope that soon might be better tools to deal with the Places in Photos. The new Photos version is the first version, where latitude and longitude are no longer read only in an Apple Script. The third party developers might soon offer extensions that can copy and paste coordinates between photos or someone might modify the script to write GPS to selected photos.