April 25, 2015

Add location information to photos - New Apple Photos App in OS X Yosemite

GeoTag 3 IconI spent a long time trying to find a step-by-step on how to add location information (GPS) to your photos for Apple's new, beautiful, but less functional, Photos app.

How aweful for a company this big to create such a nice, well thought out but utterly unfinished half-assed product!

Luckily, open-source software runs to help us!

1. Install (you will need admin rights and disable the protection in the security pane of your mac settings):

Site to download the EXIF command tool (necessary for the GUI tool to work). Install this first.

http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/  (The one you will need says "Mac OS X Package").

2. Install:
Site to download the GUI tool:

http://www.snafu.org/GeoTag/

3. Open the GeoTag application, slick OPEN to load photos (you can load as many as you like)

4. Select, click on the map to set location and hit SAVE.

5. Import into the new Photos app.

6. Enjoy that your photos will properly sort into MOMENTS as they should (as they do in case you have location info turned on for your iphone photography).

Pfew! Damn, do they really think we just want to use iphones or have GPS enabled all the time. It eats battery for breakfast AND I often need to sort my photos into moments just approximately by town, city, vacation resort and NOT by exact down to meters coordinates.




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