![]() ![]() Places in iPhoto allows you to search and sort photos by location, using data from any GPS-enabled camera or iPhone. Apple was still very understanding about geotagging: Apple Maps was universally ridiculed, but made strides, and when iPhoto 9.5 came out in fall 2013 it used that instead of Google - and also had higher Mac OS requirements. Apple and Google got into an increasingly heated business war over mobile phones and Apple introduced its own mapping software. The signs of trouble appeared slowly and were able to be ignored. typing “Manchester” in Spotlight would have this photo included as a result: The tagging system created metadata searchable in the Finder, e.g. For example, typing des polk gets me the city of Des Moines but not anything in Des Moines County. I could type city/county text strings in the search box, doing my best to control for false positives. Through the years, I would add locations and also copy and paste previous ones, offering me an instant glance at what I had taken in or near that place before. After two months of work, the national map looked like this:Īnd the state of Iowa looked like this - keep in mind that the macro zoom levels are only representations of pin placements because of spacing issues: I could now pinpoint where I was when I took each photo and not only have a big map to show for it, but effortlessly call up every photo I had ever taken near a given location. I had keywords created for the counties I had the most photos in, but I had also taken trips to Virginia and in Florida in the previous 18 months. ![]() At the time, I had 13,500 photos dating back to June 2001. The introduction of Places in iPhoto ’09 was itself a compelling reason to get a new computer. But now, the ability to pin photo locations on a map has been taken from me. I do my work in GraphicConverter, the venerated Swiss Army Knife of image utilities. To make this clear from the outset: I use iPhoto strictly as an organizational tool. I speak of the tool I have used extensively for years and has been an integral part of the work for this website, iPhoto and specifically its Places tool. But to introduce a new application and cripple an existing one is underhanded, arrogant, and one of the most disturbing trends in software today. It is one thing to introduce a new application that does something “better” and expect (or demand) users to adopt it. Apple said, We upped our photo-management system…now up yours! ![]()
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