Search photos by location

[kolbebub]

Hello everyone, my english isn’t the best but I’m trying to explain a feature that I would be missing in Photostructure. Photostructure runs wonderfully on my Unraid - No problems so far, not even with 2.1 Alpha3. The only function I miss or can’t find?
a) Find photos by location. b) Sort photos by location. c) View photos taken at a location on a map.

I hope you understand what I mean.

Keep it up…

Kind regards
Richard

[mrm]

Howdy @kolbebub , welcome to PhotoStructure!

The first step for proper geo support is already in the importer: PhotoStructure extracts GPS metadata and adds a geohash to assets with these tags.

There are a couple other feature requests to track your (excellent) suggestions:

Support reverse-geocoding, to automatically tag assets with location names

This feature would enable a “Where” root tag. For assets that are tagged with a latitude and longitude, PhotoStructure would do a reverse lookup for the point of interest nearest to the location, and tag the asset with that place: like, Where/North America/United States/California/San Francisco/Golden Gate. PhotoStructure needs a database to do these lookups, but rather than having an external API, each region database will be downloaded once when needed, to maintain privacy and minimize outbou…

Implement a map view

I have many pictures with geotags embedded in their exif data (either from a google takeout or lightroom). I would love to be able to see the pictures on a map and be able to zoom in on a location and see all pictures taken there. A secondary feature would be to further limit the search by range of time, camera, lens, etc.

Neither of those really cover the idea of geo searching, so I’m going to update the title of this topic now.

Reverse geocoding will mean you can search for country, state, county, city, and place of interest, because those will be hierarchical tags.

Ideally geo support would also enable a new “asset stream” that is “assets nearby”, which would use the geohash.

Can you elaborate on what you mean by “Sort photos by location”?

[kolbebub]

sorry my english is sometimes cruel. yes, the word geotagging did not occur to me. What I meant by sorting by location was the function on my old synology there with “photos Mobile” (synology photo app) that can “sort” albums by location on a map. sorry I can’t explain it any better. but maybe this screenshot will help:
Mfg Richard

[mrm]

Ah, got it! Your English is fine–I just wanted to make sure I knew what you were asking.

Thanks for those screenshots, that makes it clear what you’re wanting. This would indeed be a splendid feature (Google Photos uses a heatmap which is interesting as well).