I could type city/county text strings in the search box, doing my best to control for false positives. Through the years, I would add locations and also copy and paste previous ones, offering me an instant glance at what I had taken in or near that place before. After two months of work, the national map looked like this:Īnd the state of Iowa looked like this - keep in mind that the macro zoom levels are only representations of pin placements because of spacing issues: I could now pinpoint where I was when I took each photo and not only have a big map to show for it, but effortlessly call up every photo I had ever taken near a given location. I had keywords created for the counties I had the most photos in, but I had also taken trips to Virginia and in Florida in the previous 18 months. At the time, I had 13,500 photos dating back to June 2001. The introduction of Places in iPhoto ’09 was itself a compelling reason to get a new computer. But now, the ability to pin photo locations on a map has been taken from me. I do my work in GraphicConverter, the venerated Swiss Army Knife of image utilities.
To make this clear from the outset: I use iPhoto strictly as an organizational tool. I speak of the tool I have used extensively for years and has been an integral part of the work for this website, iPhoto and specifically its Places tool.
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But to introduce a new application and cripple an existing one is underhanded, arrogant, and one of the most disturbing trends in software today.
It is one thing to introduce a new application that does something “better” and expect (or demand) users to adopt it. Apple said, We upped our photo-management system…now up yours!