How to Show a Map of All Geotagged Photos on Mac

How to Show a Map of All Geotagged Photos on Mac

Have you ever wished you could view all of your geotagged pictures on a map? With the Mac Photos app, you can do exactly that by accessing a handy map of all images containing geotagging and GPS data, each displayed on a nice navigable map, right within the Photos app of Mac OS. For some quick background, if an image is geotagged it will have embedded GPS metadata stored with the picture file to maintain a record of (or at least ). While many privacy advocates dont like geotagged pictures particularly if the images are posted to the internet, social networks, social media, or any other broad service for the world to see some users may find having precise location data within images to be useful. This only works if you have pictures within the Mac Photos app that are geotagged with GPS data. If you , otherwise routinely for privacy reasons or compression purposes, or , you may not have geotagged image data to work with and thus wouldnt have anything showing up in the Photos app. Note if the sidebar isnt visible by default, you can go to the View menu to reveal the sidebar as expected. The Places section of the Photos app will always show GPS tagged images that are within the Photos app of Mac OS, but there are other ways to see geotagged images as well. You can zoom in and out on the GPS tagged photo map, and you can set the map to be a satellite view too if youd like. The map with the geotagged images is the same type of maps you encounter with the Apple Maps app on Mac and iOS. You can also show nearby geotagged photos that may relate to an existing geotagged image by having a nearby location: You can also , which will also show the geotagging information if relevant. This can also offer a simple way to see a bunch of images that have GPS data if you want to , or if you want to know what image files should be passed through . So there you have it, now you can quickly see all the geotagged pictures you have played out on a map for you within the Photos app. And if you have other pictures elsewhere you wish to check this for, youd want to , or first. Just remember that if you do have GPS and geotagging data stored in pictures and you choose to share those pictures with someone else or post them online, technically anyone can retrieve the metadata and GPS coordinates of where the picture was taken.