Cant rename a place I've got.

Question

Still learning iPhoto 11. I've manually tagged some photos for my home address, but they've been named a different name to what I want.
How do I change it? I've tried highlighting photos, open info bar, click on the name of the photos on the little map, it allows me to overtype it, but when I press return it reverts to original name.
Also can you rename it to what you want? eg instead of a road name/place, can you call it something like "home" or "your local park" etc?
cheers

Answer 1

I've had the same problem and it drives me crazy.  Worse is that sometimes I can rename a place (which then adds it to "My Places") and sometimes it keeps on reverting back to the name chosen by iPhoto (and then it still doesn't exist in "My Places").  Fortunately, I have found a way to circumvent the problem even though it is tedious.  Here are my steps...
1) Select the picture you want to change (yellow border showing) with the Info panel visible
2) Go to the iPhoto->Preferences...->Advanced menu panel
3) Change Look up Places: from "Automatically" to "Never"
4) The map in the Info panel will now still show the location, but the name will be (Places lookup disabled)
5) Click on the red pin and a new dialog box with the automatic name will pop up
6) Type in the new name you desire for the location and click the check mark
7) Go back to the iPhoto->Preferences...->Advanced menu panel
8) Change Look up Places: back from "Never" to "Automatically"
9) The map panel should now show the new name and the location will show up in your "My Places"
I hope this helps.