iPhoto Places Information

[jasnw]

Is there a way to dump the places information in an iPhoto library into a text file? I'd like to be able to build a file with latitude,longitude,name for each place in the library. I've been able to build a python script to access just about all other meta information about images in an iPhoto library, but not the places info. I know the latitude and longitude are (can be) put into the metadata stored in exported images, but I'm not using iPhoto when I extract images from the library (long story) and I don't think iPhoto puts the place name into the image file's metadata on export. I also know that there are reverse geocoding services that can convert a lat,lon to a place name, but that won't help me with place names that I've established in iPhoto.

 

[robgendreau]

I suspect that place info is stored in the database itself. Have you tried diving into that? I think maybe inside RKPlace etc. Take a look. I don't think there's any other place to access it. Unless maybe there's an Applescript or something out there somebody made to write Places to standard IPTC tags like the location ones.

 

[jasnw]

I believe the information is stored in a collection of *.applace files located in the Database/Places subdirectory within the iPhoto library package. I'm fiddling around with the strings and grep commands to see if I can harvest anything useful from these proprietary-format binary files. I tried googling applace without much luck.