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wilkoone
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December 23, 2016
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Photoshop Elements 15 Organiser - Updating location(places) when GPS data is added to a photo

  • December 23, 2016
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I have imported many photos into Organiser 15. Some have GPS data and others do not.

I am using another piece of software to add embedded GPS data to the photos that do not have it.

The only way I can get Organiser to recognise this new data is to delete the photo from the catalog and re add it.

This works OK but all the work I have put in adding the photo to events/albums/faces is obviously lost.

Please could you let me know if there is a way to update location based on GPS data.

If this cannot be done at the moment, could a function called something like "reset location/places back to GPS data" be added to the application in the future?

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ankitd
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ankitd
Adobe Employee
March 9, 2017

Hi Wilkoone,

You can use Elements organizer to embed /update GPS data in your images. Once you import the file without GPS info in the catalog, place the image on the map at desired place and then from the File menu select  "Save Metadata to File". This would embed the updated GPS info to file.

Thanks,

Ankit D

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wilkooneAuthor
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December 20, 2017

There is a bug in "Save Metadata to file" - in Ver15 and Ver16.

For GPS coordinates that are longitude WEST everything works fine .

organiser sets the four attributes  LatitudeRef , Latitude , LongitudeRef , Longitude correctly

For GPS coordinates that are longitude EAST

organiser sets the  attributes  LatitudeRef , Latitude  correctly

                                              LongitudeRef  is not set at all

                                                Longitude is set only to the nearest degree

                                                with 0 minutes and 0 seconds

EXAMPLES BELOW

Screen shots of GPS data in Organiser

EAST LOCATION - ok in organiser

WEST LOCATION - ok in organiser

    

Screen shot from file exif properties

EAST LOCATION - incorrect saved metadata

WEST LOCATION - Metadata correct

It is very easy to reproduce this error

Use Organiser to set a photo's location to Copenhagen,Denmark

Click File / Save metadata to file

Compare the GPS data Organiser (using info function) with GPS data in the file.

You can use a free tool such as "Exif Pilot" to see the GPS data in the file.

The Longitude Ref will be missing and the Longitude will be rounded to the nearest degree

Do the same with any location in the USA and everything will work properly.

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