A photo's place lets you filter by city or country, search within a distance and see it on the map. It comes from the photo's own GPS position, from you, or from the phone.
01 · From the photo itself
- A photo taken with location on carries a GPS position. Android shows it to the app only when you allow Photo locations; without it, photos are indexed without a place.
- When the photo is indexed, Opensolr turns the position into names: the city, region, province, community and country, and the street address with its postal code when one is known. The position is rounded to about ten metres before it is looked up.
- Those names are searchable (Austin finds the photos taken there) and feed the City and Country filters.
02 · Setting a place by hand
- Open a photo, swipe up for its details, and tap Place (or Add a place).
- Where was it taken? opens a map. Move it until the pin sits on the place, or tap the place. Search for a city or town finds it by name.
- Tap Use this place. The place is saved on the phone at once; its names arrive with the sync that starts right after.
For many photos at once, select them and use Place in Tag N photos: every ticked photo, or only those without a place. The photo files are not changed.
03 · Locate new photos
Me › Settings › Places › Locate new photos gives a place to new photos that have none, such as screenshots or photos from apps that strip the position:
- it takes the place of the phone photo closest to it in time, within 30 minutes;
- or, for a photo taken in the last 2 hours and synced while the app is open, the phone's own position.
Photos that already have a place are never touched. The phone's own position is used only if you allow location access; the app explains why before Android asks. Without it, only the phone's own photos are used.