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McSkelley
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October 11, 2017
Question

Show map location of a photo easily

  • October 11, 2017
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Is it possible to easily show the location on a map of a single photo in Elements Organiser  (version 18).

In 'Media' view of a single photo, clicking the 'Keyword/Info' tab (bottom right corner) brings up information/metadata, including GPS co-ordinates. However I cannot find an easy way to show the location on a map of a single photo.

The only way I can find is to go into 'Places' and search every group of (pinned) photos until I am lucky enough to find the single photo I am looking for - if I do not know the location of the photo, it is very time consuming.

This was very easy in Google Picasa - you could click on the location tab for any photo and the map location would be shown next to the photo - but Picasa now has multiple bugs (as is no longer being developed).

I have an iPhone (with GPS) and a standard camera (without GPS). I would load the photos from both into Picasa and they would be listed according to date/time taken  so it was an easy matter to give the unpinned photos a location by using the map location of the nearest iPhone photo. Also I could give the photo an appropriate file name from looking at the map. This is what I was hoping Elements could do.

I have tried Google photos but 1) its a cloud service & 2) it does not do the above.

An additional question: the iPhone has photo direction information stored in the metadata, as well as GPS co-ordinates: I see this metatdata is listed in Elements. In some iPhone apps the direction of view can be shown so I can work out what I was looking at when the photo was taken - makes it easier to give the photo an appropriate name. Can Elements (or any other PC photo organising software) display the direction of view on a map ?

I know I am swimming against the tide but I like to have an appropriate file structure to my photos (ie year and the option to have sub folders for holidays etc).

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ankitd
Adobe Employee
ankitd
Adobe Employee
October 12, 2017

Hi McSkelley,

Thanks for your feedback. Organizer groups together the images taken at a particular location and places them as pins on the map. To view all the images on a location you'll have to double click on the pin. You can also see the images in a pin by clicking on the arrow buttons on either side of a pin. So, at present only grouped images in form of pins can be viewed on the map.

Thanks

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McSkelleyAuthor
Known Participant
October 13, 2017

Hi,

Thanks for getting back. Do you know if there are any plans to:

1) allow individual photos with adjoining map view

2) have map view in combined 'pinned' & 'unpinned' photos (so allowing easy geotagging of unpinned photos)

All the best,

Douglas King

Neidelhart
Neidelhart
Participant
November 1, 2017

This is a really infuriating situation and yet it seems like a problem easily solved. If I could find a program that is easier to handle than Photoshop Elements (like an idiot I upgrade every year hoping for improvement but it never comes) I would switch like that.

Bookman

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