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Old September 13th 15, 08:45 AM posted to rec.photo.digital,uk.comp.sys.mac
RJH
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Default Viewing photos on a map

On 13/09/2015 08:28, Savageduck wrote:
On 2015-09-13 07:12:28 +0000, RJH said:

On 13/09/2015 07:42, ray wrote:
On 13/09/2015 07:16, RJH wrote:
I may be misremembering, but I'm sure the old iPhoto app on a Mac
allowed a 'map' view. Effectively a scalable map, with pins that
indicated where a photo was taken.

This seems to be missing from the newer Photos app. I've looked in the
help section, which apart from being inexplicably slow to use, shows
screenshots from a seemingly different application, and seems to
suggest
it's not there. I can search by location, but there's no way to get
this
map overview, which I found useful.

Is there an application for Mac that has this feature? Or am I missing
something?

Location data is picked up from the meta data of the image.
If it exists then 'get info' on the selected image (there is an icon on
the menu bar) will bring up that information together with a map showing
the location.


Yes, sorry, I wasn't clear. I was after a map overview of all of the
photos. So a scalable map (a map that scales between different, er,
scales - 1:1000, 1:1,000,000, etc), from the world, down to my street,
with pins to indicate where a photo was taken.


There is always Lightroom.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_287.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_288.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_289.jpg


Perfect, thanks.

I'm *sure* I used to see something similar in iPhoto. In fact, I've just
opened Aperture (bought and barely used a while back) and I see that has
a 'Map' view. But no obvious way to use the Photos library. Hmphh.

But at least I know it can be done. Just got to work out how to get
something to play with the Photos database . . .

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Cheers, Rob