Photos app - Change or add location

I recently migrated from iPhoto to Photos after installing OS X 10.10.3
From time to time I come across old family pics, scan then and addd to my library. On many of these I know the location and want to add that to the photo information. I was able to do that with iPhoto, but don't know how to do that with the new Photos app.
Does anyone know how to do this?
Any help would be appreciated.

There is no way. You need to do it with some other app before importing.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html is the place for feature requests and feedback

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