Places in iphoto

Just recently I'm not able to see the map in places it's just a grey area?

There is another similar issue on the site (https://discussions.apple.com/message/18486336#18486336)
The solution I tested and which worked for me is simply to remove all cookies in Safari and relaunch iPhoto afterwards.

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How to create a new place in iPhoto 11 without doing any harm?

Yes, I know how to create a new place for a photo -- theoretically:
Select the photo.
Make sure the Info icon in the lower right portion of the iPhoto window is clicked and the too-tiny-for-any-but-the-youngest-eyes map is displaying.
Click in "Assign a Place..." and begin typing a place that iPhoto will search for. It searches in both "your places" (i.e., those that you have already defined) as well as in Google Maps.
When you see a place in the search results list that you think might be close to the one you mean, select it.
A pin appears on the itsy-bitsy map. Move it to the exact place you mean. You can make controls appear on the map by moving the mouse over the bottom of the map. The controls allow you to zoom in and out, and to change views (Terrain, Satellite, Hybrid). When the pin is where you want it, click it. The current name of the location appears. Modify it to the name you want, then click the check mark.
That's "all" there is to it ... except for a couple of "gotchas."
There's a difference between what happens when you select a place that you've defined and when you select a place that Google found in the search results. If it's a place that you've defined, and you then move the pin to a new location and/or change its name, this will affect all photos assigned to the custom place. In effect, you are modifying the place.
All places have a radius associated with them, thereby making them circles. You can adjust the radius only in the Maintain My Places window. In the itsy-bitsy map it doesn't even appear. However, if the newly defined place overlaps existing ones, all the photos assigned to the overlapped places will be assigned to the new one. Their pins will remain where they were.
Now, before anybody suggests sending feedback to Apple, let me emphasize that I have been sending Apple feedback on the wrong-headed implementation of Places since iPhoto 9.0. New versions have come and gone (the current one is 9.1.2), but these "features" have remained. So my purpose in opening this thread is to consolidate work arounds to these "features" in one place. My work around:
Whenever I define a new place, I select only a single photo. I try to name my places so that I can distinguish them from those that Google finds. In order to avoid Gotcha 1 I select a place that Google finds and try to place the pin close enough to where I want it, but far enough from any other places that I've defined. I give it a name that I can easily find it Manage My Place.
I immediately open Manage My Places and select the new place. I first note the pins near it, then decrease its radius, move the pin to the desired location, note the nearby places, and give it its final name.
I then view Places and navigate to the new place to view the photos assigned to it. If I'm lucky, there's only one. Otherwise, I have to reassign the other photos to their correct places.
Richard

So... in the hope it will not confuse folks more, let me be more specific of a procedure that works for me...
Procedure to create a new My Places location.
OK there is more you can do with a non-GPS Coord linked photo.
Click Info and then click Assign a Place in the lower right of screen. (if your photo has a location linked to it already the Assign a Place will NOT show up.)
Choose a location name near the actual location that Google Maps can find.
Click that location in the Google Maps list that appears and your photo will be temporarily assigned to that location.
Now type over that location name in order to make sure to give that location a unique name that will show up in your My Places list and click that name after you have typed it to be sure it is accepted.
Now in iPhoto click Window/Manage My Places and go the that newly named location in the large My Places map. There's no easy search. You have to run down through the alphabetical list.
Drag the flag to the location you want this place to be and click Done.
The location name is now in your My Places list at the location you dragged the flag to!
It is important to note that only your unique named locations show up in your Places list, so if you want to modify the location coordinates you have to establish a unique name for it.
This is much more complicated that previous iPhoto versions!
But Yeah!!!!!!!!!!
It really works!!!!!!!

How do I create a "place" in iPhoto's Places list? Is this possible the way it's possible to create albums? Also, how do I assign a place to a photo or vice versa?

How do I create a "place" in iPhoto's Places list? Is this possible the way it's possible to create albums? Also, how do I assign a place to a photo or vice versa?

Select a Photo in the iPhoto Window and click on the 'i' button lower right. This uncovers the Info Panel, and you can assign a Place there. Search on the name of the place and then move the pin to where you want it. This is all covered in the Help and in the tutorials.
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/photos/#places
Regards
TD

Using Places in iPhoto with aperture photos

If we have a picture in aperture with the City and Country Name attribute filleds, this picture in iphoto will not have the info. So, iPhoto no uses the EXIF City and Country Name fields.
are there any solution to use the exif info filled in apeture with Places in iPhoto?
Thanks.

I am not familiar with Aperture so I don't know what it can do or if any helper programs/plug ins will do with Aperture.
However there are other Geotagging programs out there. One that is very easy to use in conjunction with Google Earth is Graphics Connverter. With GC, you can open Google Earth, find the location of you want to tag your photo with, then switch over to GC and use the menu item to geotag the selected photos (you can do many photos at once) with the currently displayed Google Earth location. In addition there is a menu command to simply type in coordinates if you do not want to use Google Earth. GC can also tag using GPS data logger files.
GC will write the coordinates to the EXIF data and I have done it myself on both normal JPGs as well as Olympus RAW format. I know when I geotag with GC and then add the photos to iPhoto, iPhoto sees the tags just fine and show their locations. I assume Aperture would do the same.
iPhoto can tag photos as well, but it only writes the data to the database and doesn't actually add the info to the EXIF of the photos themselves until you export the photos out of iPhoto. Do to do it with iPhoto is a multi step process that would require adding them to iPhoto, tagging them, then exporting them back out of iPhoto. I think CG would be an easier solution.
Patrick

Why is using Places in iPhoto 11 such a hairy hassle?

Here is the feedback that I just sent to Apple:
"Why is defining a place such a hassle? Don't bother telling me the steps -- I know them too well. Tell me why, when I select a photo, type something in the teeny-weeny Assign a Place... dialog, then select one of the suggestions, what happens next depends on whether the selected suggestion is a custom place or one that Google found? Tell me why, if it's the former and I move the pin around and assign it a new name, I effectively modify the place, just as if I were working in Manage my Places, whereas if it's the latter, I define a new custom place? Tell me why, if the custom place that I define happens to overlap other custom places, the photos assigned to them will be reassigned to the new custom place? Tell me why I can't adjust the radius of the place in the teeny-weeny Assign a Place... dialog to prevent that from happening ... by the time I do that in Manage my Places it's too late! Tell me why, with every new version of iPhoto 11 the usability of Places just gets worse?"
Of course, I don't expect Apple to answer, but I would appreciate any hints for solving, or, at least, avoid the problems described above. They weren't problems in the previous major version of iPhoto.
The latest patch, 9.1.3, seems to have brought new Places problems. I assigned a photo to Martinskirchplatz in Basel. It wasn't in My Places, so it's a place that iPhoto found through Google. Naturally, it overlapped other custom places nearby: Rheinsprung, Alte Universität von Basel, Basler Rathaus. So, after adjusting the radius of Martinskirchplatz in Manage my Places to avoid overlapping them, I switched to the Places view and selected Martinskirchplatz to see all the photos that really belonged to the overlapped places but had been reassigned, and painfully assigned them back to the correct places. Then I found a photo that I had originally assigned to Rheinsprung and reassigned it to Martinskirchplatz, since that's exactly where I had taken it. When I exited Places, re-entered and selected Martinskirchplatz, only the photo for which I had defined that place was there, not the one that I had reassigned to it. No matter what I did, I could not convince iPhoto to show me both photos for that place, despite the fact that, in the Info displays for both the place was correct, and it only appears once in Manage my Places. So I decided to repair and rebuild the library, and iPhoto decided to surprise me by only retaining the places for photos taken with the iPhone (presumably because they contain the GPS coordinates). WHO UNDERSTANDS THAT Rebuild Library from backup MEANS THAT CUSTOM PLACES WILL BE LOST? Just what kind of backup is it that doesn't backup the places?
Regards,
Richard

The problem with Places is not the development, but the design, so learning how to develop (I presume you mean program) an application isn't going bring you any closer to understanding why Places doesn't "work." In fact, Apple's refusal to address the problem of overlapping custom places indicates that this is the way it's supposed to work, but Apple provides no explanation about the underlying model, i.e., how we're supposed to think about custom places.
As nearly as I can tell, custom places are supposed to provide GPS coordinates for photos that don't already have them, or have them wrong. Look at what happens when you import a photo from, say, the iPhone. Provided you haven't switched off the Location facility, the photo has GPS coordinates. And, providing you haven't switched off the option in iPhoto to place photos, iPhoto will look up the coordinates in Google Maps and get the most precise name it can. Apple's solution to the problem of photos which don't have GPS coordinates should have been, allow the user to supply them.
Now, there's a second problem with geo-tagged photos, regardless whether they were automatically or manually tagged. Sometimes we would like to provide a more precise area than Google Maps. For example, Google Maps might supply just the city Basel for photos taken anywhere in Basel, whereas we might want to distinguish various areas in Basel. This, too, has an easy solution. Allow the user to define closed polygons, circles, etc. which constitute a level of detail finer than the finest level that Google Maps supplies. So what if the custom areas overlap? No problem. The photos have coordinates, so if the coordinates of a photo put it in multiple areas, that's OK.
So far, so good. For each problem we have an independent solution. Now, there's a third problem that's specific to manual geo-tagging. Maybe I don't remember or don't care where exactly on the Marktplatz in Basel I took a photo. Why should I have to assign it to a point? Here is where Apple apparently got too clever for its own good. Instead of supplying a separate solution to this problem as well (e.g., by introducing the concept of an area of uncertainty around a point, or by providing a facility to assign a photo the same coordinates as another), we now have what amounts to one solution for two problems: when you think you're defining a custom place, you're really defining a circular area and assigning the photo the coordinates of the center of the circle. So, what's so bad about that? First, the process of defining a new place never makes it clear that it's actually an area that is being defined. Second, even if you're aware of this, you cannot specify the size of the area at the same time that you define it, so there's no way to prevent it from overlapping other places that you've defined. And what is the problem with overlapping? Since the photos are not attached to the areas to which you assign them, but only derive their implicit coordinates from the assignment. Now, anybody could understand that, if two areas overlap sufficiently, in particular, if one overlaps the center of the the other, then the photos assigned to the two places might be displayed when the large place is viewed. But, for some strange reason, reducing the overlap in Manage My Places, or eliminating it altogether, doesn't rectify the problem. Instead you must reassign the "victim" photos of overlap.
The lesson here is: Good design means a single solution to a single problem. Three problems? Three independent solutions! This allows the user to do just what he wants, and to understand what he is doing. Don't want to define an area? Fine. Just assign a coordinate to a photo. Don't want to assign a coordinate, because that would imply precision, or because you don't recall exactly where? Fine. Just define an area of uncertainty and assign the photo to it. As you and/or your needs develop, you can do more sophisticated things with three solutions than with a single one, and you still understand what you're doing.
Somehow I don't believe that Apple doesn't know all this. I could imagine this is an attempt to "simplify" the UI in preparation for supporting a touch interface like that promised for Lion. Unfortunately, the price for reducing three separate operations to a single one is semantic overload and an opaque underlying model.
Richard

How well does a GPS camera function with Places in iPhoto?

Hello,
I am considering buying a GPS camera (Nikon Coolpix AW110 to be exact). Does anyone know how this functions with Places in iPhoto?
Regards,
Tom

As long as the camera writes the data to the correct fields in the Metadata of the image, it will work. I would expect that the Nikon should do that.

Which compact camera with GPS is compatible with places in iphoto? I would like a new camera ..

which compact camera with GPS is compatible with places in iphoto? I would like a new camera ..

I don't think you need a GPS camera. Activate Places and proceede. iPhoto forum for help:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/ilife/iphoto

Which compact camera with GPS is compatible with places in iPhoto

which compact camera with GPS is compatible with places in iphoto? I would like a new camera ..

You might find that posing this question in the iPhoto column is more suitable. Not to say people here don't know about cameras but those who live with them tend to reside there. If you're lucky, you might get Terence Devlin or Old Toad.
Incidentally ... More like this is a good reading source. ------------------------------>

Will we ever be able to turn off faces and places in iphoto?

Will we ever be able to turn off faces and places in iphoto? Ever?

Thanks for the response. I was hoping I'd just missed where to turn off faces. Yes, I can ignore, but it's annoying when it's constantly asking me for the names of light/shadow patterns that have nothing to do with people (most of my photography is not of people). I'd forgotten places can be turned off, and apparently I do have it turned off, but I still get the box with the world map open all the time.
Anyway, thanks for your help!

I've tried to place an iphoto album order and it quits half way through the up

I've tried to place an iphoto album order and it quits half way through the upload process. A prompt comes up saying "iphoto quit unexepectedly". It always quits at the same spot, page 17. I've tried many times. It worked last year when I made the same type of photo album. Anyone have any ideas? I have a MAC OS X 10.6.8
thanks!

What version of iPhoto?
can you preview the book - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1040
LN

Gps cameras that work automatically with places in iPhoto?

I'm looking to buy a new compact camera with gps. Does anybody know if there are any that work with the places feature automatically? i just want to be able to plug the camera in and have places work without needing 3rd party software/plugins to convert the information first.

There are several - I use Sony and have an Alpha A55 and a DSC HX5V - both work perfectly (note that any GPS takes time to acquire a signal so sometimes photos get the wrong location - your previous location - and have to be corrected in iPhoto)
and both of our iPhones add GPS of course (sometimes that is helpful in correct locations from teh camera - because of the WiFi and 3G in addition to GPS the phone is usually quicker to acquire the correct location)
In general any GPS enabled camera shoudl work just fine
LN

Does Aperture mishandle Places like iPhoto 11?

Background to Question
In iPhoto, if you create a place, it gets not only a pin but also a vicinity, a circle centered at the pin. Gotcha #1: The vicinity doesn't display on the tiny map where you assign a place to a photo. You have to go to Manage My Places to see it. In IPhoto, if the vicinities of two places over lap, photos assigned to one place might be reassigned to the other. ("Might" is italicized because this seems to depend on the version of iPhoto 11, although regardless of whether they are reassigned or not, overlapping vicinities cause grief, as documented in other threads.)
The Question
Does anybody have experience with Aperture? Is there such a thing as vicinity for user-created places, and if so, do overlapping vicinities cause problems?
Obviously, I am considering switching to Aperture, as my iPhoto Library is quite large (~ 250 GB, or 35,000 photos).
Regards,
Richard

Richard,
Do I assume correctly that, when I import a photo with geocoding in the EXIF data I have an opportunity to assign that point a name, e.g., "My House"?
Yes, when your images have geographic coordinates assigned, they will appear on the map in places view, marked by pins. You can define a new place at this position - click the pin, ctrl-click the label with a default name, and select to create a new place.
Q2. Does that point become one of My Places, which I then can Manage?
Yes, exactly. Or you can create new places by seelcting an image and assigning a new place, that you create by clicking a place on the map.
Click a center point and drag the radius handles, to adjust te size of the place. (Q3)
I live in the small city of Basel, Switzerland.
Small city don't let that hear other people from Switzerland! A beautiful city!
And, of course, creatong a new place couldn't be any more complicated!
I don't find it difficult to create places, but they are not stored in the EXIF tags, that other programs understand. That is why I assign them before. I use an AMOD geotracker or a Garmin GPS, record tracks while I am taking photos, and use Jetphoto Studio to assign the photos to the tracks. Then I import and all images appear on the map.
Regards
Léonie

Seeing places in iPhoto - not working from some photos

Hello WWW...was hoping someone could please assit...I recently upgrated to Lion and some of my photos in iphoto are not showing "places" I attemted to "rescan location" and this appears to literally do nothing! Attempted to veiw info in the photo and all this shows is the camera (sony nex 5) that date and time the photo were taken etc but still no gps co-ordnates...How do I easily "see" my places in my 1000+ photo taken on our family holiday.

Sorry I am not a mind reader so I still have no idea how you assigned the places to the photos in question
The way you assign places including a demonstration video according to the iPhoto help is:
Add places to your photos
If you have photos that don’t have GPS information, including print photos that were scanned to a disk, you can still map your photos in Places.
https://help.apple.com/iphoto/mac/help/index.html?lang=en#
Watch the movie (about 2 minutes)
View and organize photos using Places
iPhoto matches recognizable location names you enter, such as “Seattle” or “Milan,” to a mapping database. When you add a location to a single photo or an entire Event, those photos are marked on the Places map.
Or, if you have latitude and longitude information for the place where you shot your photos, you can use that information to add the location.
Important: You must be connected to the Internet for the Places feature to show photo locations on the map.
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To add a place name:
Select the photo or Event you want to add location information to.Tip: If you select an Event, the location is added to every photo in that Event. But you can add locations to selected photos without adding locations to them all. To do so, select the photos you want, move your pointer over them, and then click the Info button. Skip to step 3.
Click the Info button in the toolbar to open the Information pane.
Select “Assign a Place” and start typing the location name to see the related names iPhoto suggests.You can type city names, place names (such as “Empire State Building”), and addresses (such as “12345 Main St., Lincoln, NE”).Note: If no locations appear, check to make sure that iPhoto is set to look up locations.
As related names appear, do one of the following:
If you see the location you want appear in the pop-up menu, choose it. iPhoto marks your selected location with a red marker pin on the map in the Information pane.
If you don’t see the exact location you want in the pop-up menu, choose a location that’s nearby. For example, if you took a photo of a star at Mann’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood, you can type “Hollywood” into the location field and then choose the Hollywood, California, option from the pop-up menu. Then go to step 5.A red marker pin appears in the map in the Information pane.
To fine-tune the location, you can click the marker pin (it turns yellow) and drag it to a different location, such as a neighboring town, or a more specific location, such as a particular intersection.You can click the plus and minus buttons to zoom in or out, and drag the map to show a different area.To center the map on the pin, click the circle icon.Note: You can move marker pins only in the small map that appears below Places in the Information pane. You can’t drag marker pins on the full-size Places map.
When you’re satisfied with the location as it appears in the Information pane, click the arrow next to the location name to view the marker on the full Places map.
HideTo use latitude and longitude to add a place:
Select the photo or Event you want to add location information to.Tip: If you select an Event, the location is added to every photo in that Event. But you can add locations to selected photos without adding locations to them all. To do so, select the photos you want, move your pointer over them, and then click the Info button. Skip to step 3.
Click the Info button to open the Information pane.
Select “Assign a Place,” and then type the latitude and longitude, separated by a comma.For example, you can type “24, -110” or, if you prefer, you can use a longer format, such as “24.15988731, -110.50838234.”It’s important to always put the latitude first.
Look at the map to confirm the location, and then do one of the following:
If the location is correct, continue to step 5.
If the location is incorrect, retype the latitude and longitude, or drag the pin to a more exact location on the map.You can use the plus and minus buttons to zoom in and out, and drag the map to center it on a better spot.Note: You can move marker pins only in the small map that appears below Places in the Information pane. You can’t drag marker pins on the full-size Places map.
If you want, you can view the location marked on the full Places map by clicking the arrow next to the location name.
HideTo copy the location of one photo to other photos:You can copy the location of one photo to another photo or photos.
Select a photo that has the location assigned to it that you want to copy, and then choose Edit > Copy.
Select one or more photos that you want to assign the same location to, and choose Edit > Paste Location.The location is added to the photos, which you can then view using Places.
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Using Places in iPhoto

I have imported photos taken with a camera with GPS into iPhoto on my MacBookPro. While I can see all the locations when I open info for each photo and for that event, I cannot see them in Places. Any suggestions?

iPhoto Preferences are set to "Automatically", and I can see the locations in the small map in the lower right corner of the full screen when I open "info". But when I open places they are not there.

Adding map with places in iphoto 08 in making a photobook

In the tutoril movie I see that they create a page into a map where you can put places where you went on holiday. This was selected by the option layout, map.
I have ilife 08, and cannot find this option. i want to add this. If I can see it in the tutorial I also want to di this.
Does someone knows how todo this?
Jan

If you used the Help file to view the iPhoto tutorials they are online all have been updated to the new iPhoto 09 videos which shows the new map capability.
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto (iPhoto.Library for iPhoto 5 and earlier) database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger or later), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 6 and 7 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. Just put the application in the Dock and click on it whenever you want to backup the dB file. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.
Note: There's now an Automator backup application for iPhoto 5 that will work with Tiger or Leopard.

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