How to tag photo with a Place not on the map?

bensquared  wrote I'm using Photoshop Elements 15. I often want to tag a photo with a place that is not on the map. For example, I have some photos at a college campus. I want the Place to be the name of the college, not the city it is in. Or photos with my neighborhood I'd like to organize under its name. I know I could create a Keyword Place, but then I end up with places under Keywords and under Places. I'd also like to organize some places differently than by country, state city. For example, some places I visit I'd like to organize under "Vacations," while other places may be areas I've traveled to for business. It seems like these later versions of Elements have become increasingly rigid in their capability for customized organization. Any help or thoughts?

Thoughts...

You are right that there are two ways to assign places information to your files. The classical keyword category existing from the beginning of the organizer and the geolocation place.

I have always used the first one, with its total flexibility to define places hierarchies; one of its overlooked big advantages is that I only tag with places when that is relevant for ulterior searches; in most of my shoots, place is irrelevant.

Recently, I have also played with the Google Map geotagging. It's natural for photos taken with my phone; I even use my phone to 'geotag' places when it's useful for a shoot with my cameras without GPS.

The result is that I have the double places system you don't like.

But I am very happy with it.

I am not limited by the limited hierarchy provided by Google.

When searching, I can find all photos based on a two criteria location tag from both systems.

- either by a 'search by detail' based on both systems

- or, much simpler, a search by the new advanced search feature (magnifying glass on the top right of the screen)

If I want to assign a Google tag to old photos tagged in the classical hierarchy system, nothing is easier. I select them all for an old place and assign the new Google tag. Conversely, I can select from the Google tag and assign a tag in a personal tag hierarchy in the old system. Most of the time, I don't need the double system, so I am happy not to have too many redundant tags.