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Problem with 'Places' feature on iPad?

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G.O.B

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May 15, 2010
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Hi everyone,

Loving my iPad so far, I just have one minor issue. I've done a search on the iPad forum and nobody seems to have had this specific problem - basically, the Places feature on the Photos app is only recognising places where I took photos on my iPhone, not all the places where my main camera has been.

Despite geotagging all of my photos on iPhoto '09 (there are markers all over the map), none of these seems to transfer over to the iPad except the iPhone ones. Does anybody know how to fix this?

Thanks a lot!
 
I just checked my photos on my iPad and they are all on the map.

I'm wondering if they are getting tagged in a different spot on the image and the iPad is not recognizing them.

BTW, are you using your camera to geotag them or iPhoto or another program on your computer?
 
Thanks for helping. What do you mean by 'getting tagged on a different part of the image'? Maybe I'm doing it wrong - I'm using iPhoto to geotag them, and I'm doing so by clicking the little 'i' in the bottom right of event thumbnails. It's strange because they appear as red markers on iPhoto, but not on the Photos app on my iPad.
 
G.O.B said:
Thanks for helping. What do you mean by 'getting tagged on a different part of the image'? Maybe I'm doing it wrong - I'm using iPhoto to geotag them, and I'm doing so by clicking the little 'i' in the bottom right of event thumbnails. It's strange because they appear as red markers on iPhoto, but not on the Photos app on my iPad.
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I just added a photo that I manually tagged in iPhoto and I know was not tagged anywhere else.

I could not find it on the map on my iPad. I made sure that i put it in a place where I had no other pics tagged.

Very strange and HUGE oversight on Apple's part if this doesn't sync correctly.
 
I've had no problems, I just spent some time explaining a trip using the places feature and all the pictures were tagged perfectly. Although I am using aperture 3. Not sure if this would be an issue. Sorry it's not working for you.
 
I have both pictures from my iPhone and ones from other sources that I manually geotagged inside of iPhoto '09. Both types are appearing on the places map in the photo app on my iPad. Sorry I can't be of more help. Good luck.
 
Not much help but for what it's worth I've had geotagging turned on on my Droid since I got it on launch day. All photos are on my iPad but only the ones taken since the 2.1 update are showing up on the map.
 
This is a long shot but try this.

Go into Preferences
Click on the Web tab
Make sure "Include Location Information for Published Photos" is checked.
 
iammike1 said:
This is a long shot but try this.

Go into Preferences
Click on the Web tab
Make sure "Include Location Information for Published Photos" is checked.
Click to expand...

I think you just solved the mystery.

I checked the box, added a geotag in iPhoto, synced my iPad, and it all worked.

Thanks for that!
 
Hey Mike,

Just to add that it also worked for me, so this issue has been well and truly solved. Thanks a lot :)
 
iammike1 said:
This is a long shot but try this.

Go into Preferences
Click on the Web tab
Make sure "Include Location Information for Published Photos" is checked.
Click to expand...

I haven't synced any photos to my iPad yet but thanks in advance for this, since now I'll know what to do if I run into this!
 
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