IPhoto '09 places many of my pictures nowhere near where they were taken

After upgrading my iPhoto library to '09 and opening up "places", I was shocked to see a cluster of photos in China. (I've never in my life been to China, much less taken a photo there.) Any idea what's going on? (There are many other incorrect locations too, by the way!)

You have bad data in your EXIF fields on your photos
At one time early on someone posted that iPhoto was switching the sign (making negative locations positive as I remember) on some Geo Data - if these are old photos that have been in iPhoto for a while that might be what the problem is - export one and look at the EXIF data in preview or with a third party program like CD Finder Inspector - http://www.cdfinder.de/en/en/geotagging.html
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