Search photos by location

[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”?