Does PhotoStructure ingest Google Photos takeout geoData?

I have some photos from Google Photos that have a JSON sidecar containing geo data:

{
  "title": "20181224_135957.jpg",
  "description": "",
  "imageViews": "0",
  "creationTime": {
    "timestamp": "1566417420",
    "formatted": "Aug 21, 2019, 7:57:00 PM UTC"
  },
  "modificationTime": {
    "timestamp": "1608047282",
    "formatted": "Dec 15, 2020, 3:48:02 PM UTC"
  },
  "photoTakenTime": {
    "timestamp": "1545688796",
    "formatted": "Dec 24, 2018, 9:59:56 PM UTC"
  },
  "geoData": {
    "latitude": 42.17080577777777,
    "longitude": -122.4668395,
    "altitude": 1520.721,
    "latitudeSpan": 0.0,
    "longitudeSpan": 0.0
  },
  "geoDataExif": {
    "latitude": 42.17080577777777,
    "longitude": -122.4668395,
    "altitude": 1520.721,
    "latitudeSpan": 0.0,
    "longitudeSpan": 0.0
  },
  "people": [{
    "name": "Daniel Lo Nigro"
  }],
  "googlePhotosOrigin": {
    "fromPartnerSharing": {
    }
  }
}

Does PhotoStructure currently ingest this data into its database? I don’t see it in the “info” panel, but I’m wondering if it’s storing it and just not displaying it anywhere.

The reason I’m asking is that I want to eventually move just my PhotoStructure directory to a server and delete all the Google Takeout data (leaving just the PhotoStructure directory). I don’t see JSON sidecars in the PhotoStructure 2018\2018-12-24 directory, just the images. I’m wondering if I need to keep all the Google Takeout JSON sidecar files (eg. move them into the PhotoStructure directory) in order to preserve this metadata.

It does ingest this data: check the geohash column in the assetfile table.

I’d be hesitant to recommend deleting the takeout archive, simply because the JSON metadata is only in your library database (rather than, say, being copied into the file or into a sidecar).

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Do you have any plans to reinsert the metadata from Google Takeout json files back into proper EXIF data in the image files copied to the PhotoStructure library?

I would like for mye images to contain as much as possible of the metadata, so that this is kept intact even if I move from PhotoStructure to just a directory based library in the future (or if the PhotoStructure database was lost/destroyed for some reason).

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A couple of users have suggested this as well! :+1: I’ve added this as a new feature request: