welcome back everyone my name is Joel Feld I got my coffee grab yours because today we're
gonna take a look around the world at pictures based off of places alright everyone so places
is really a nice feature within photos because it plots all of your photographs across the map by
GPS location and instead of searching for pictures by people or by time you can just say I I know it
was in Chicago where I took that picture I just don't know what time or when it was so if you
know that location it's really nice to be able to find that picture when you open up photos on
the left hand side you will have a category under the library called places now if I click on places
this shows me essentially a map and to start off there's a three ways to view the map across the
top we have map we have satellites and then we have grid now map is just a generic think of
like a map that you would buy at a gas station so it just has the roads it doesn't show the
trees the all of that kind of stuff that's where satellite will show you that so it's just visually
different and if I click on grid it's just showing you in chronological order the photos in more of
a thumbnail fashion and you can click on the name and it takes you directly to that place and
then shows you all of the photographs from that location I can click on the back arrow in the top
left here and that brings me back and then I can go back to map and or satellite now one thing to
note if you're taking pictures with a smartphone like an iPhone or an Android they're all GPS
enabled devices meaning that every single time you take a photo or video it's stamping that metadata
to that image and it associates it with the map if you have a DSLR camera or a point-and-shoot
a lot of those cameras will have that but some of them will not have a GPS chip in so you would
have to add the date or the location later now one thing that I regret doing is not enabling
GPS on my camera earlier because there's a lot of photos that I took across the United States
or across the country and I really wish that I had enabled it prior but I was thinking in my mind I
wanted to conserve battery life because it may you know always be looking for GPS and then it
will drain my battery life I don't know if that's true or not I'm guessing it might be a little bit
but I realized that I already have four or five extra batteries which again you don't have extra
batteries for your camera get them but I really wish I had turned GPS on because there's so many
photos now that I don't have associated on a map so that's just side note turn the GPS on I like to
look at it in satellite view personally and if I click and hold on the map notice I can just drag
it around if I double click on the map it's gonna zoom me into that location there's other controls
in the bottom right here notice you have the little minus sign to zoom in and out as well
as you can turn the map and there's a little 3d button but notice how the 3d button is not enabled
it's not there so we have to zoom in far enough where it actually has 3d enabled and I'll show you
that in a second but let's go ahead and if we look at this notice it's just literally plotting all my
photos on the map of where they were taken because it's all by GPS so if i zoom in farther they're
just going to spread out even farther because all of these pictures or someplace so I know that if
I click on here it's gonna automatically take me to where I took these family photos of this family
if I go back to the air on the top I can go to you know here's these pictures of Hudson and my
kids so we're someplace in Albertville probably the mall and so it's really nice to be able to
just look on a map and find your pictures based off of place really helpful now what's really fun
is let's go ahead I'm going to zoom out and you can also if you have a trackpad if you use two
fingers you can pinch to zoom in and out which is also nice and you can use two fingers also around
to scroll up and down and move the map around now I want to show you this 3d option because I think
it's really cool and we're gonna head to Chicago for that so if I scroll in closer to Chicago
notice I can now click on 3d so what that does is it actually turns the map into a 3d map where
I can zoom in even farther and now I actually have the pictures mapped out in a 3d environment
within a large city so it's really kind of cool some things that are helpful is you know I can
move the map around like this and the way that you do that is if you hold down option on the
keyboard hold down option and then click and hold and you're able to kind of rotate and and
tilt the map up a little bit easier but what's really cool is you know I can see and if I can
zoom down even farther a lot of these pictures here where we took a boat ride a water taxi and
we're on the water so it's showing us these photographs while we are on the water going
through and literally it's just planting all of the photographs on a map in this 3d environment
so it's really cool to even go back and look at all of these pictures in a different way you
know here's st. Patty's Day Chicago you've never been to Chicago for st. Patty's Day
here's what it looks like it's it's insane it's a lot of people and it's green very green I'm
not Irish actually sight no I took one of those uh not ancestry of whatever the DNA
stuff not 23 yeah no I took ancestry I all of my life I thought I was Italian I'm not
Italian although I'm not sure how accurate it is spitting into a cup and sending that to some
imaginary scientist but I thought that was kind of really interesting and disappointing because
maybe I wanted to be Italian but I was told my whole life I was Italian but I'm not Italian
so yeah end of rant back to the photos if i zoom back out then it's just a really nice way to see
all my pictures and they're gonna be everywhere so if i zoom back out I can even look around the
world Scroll in here and this is gonna show me took a trip to Israel which was just phenomenal
and here it shows me all of the photos where we are at so it's gonna show you everywhere
if you if you love to travel or just around the United States anywhere you go being able
to find pictures based off of location is really really fun here's is a good example so these are
the streets of Tel Aviv and here's what the trees look like isn't that cool I want trees like that
here in Minnesota I don't think it'll happen but really cool so that's places in a nutshell
now let's say that we have a photograph that we don't have GPS enabled so I have some pictures
I think out from California that I took that don't have a picture or a location associated
with it and some of the ways that I can tell is if you notice in the in the top right hand side
of the picture notice how it has like a little pin with the line that represents that there's
a location already associated with that photo so if I click on info here it's already gonna
say yep this picture buzz in Los Angeles now if I go back and I look at let's say this picture
here notice there's no pin if I click the little I it's not there now this this is where you candle
assign a location if you didn't have GPS enabled if I go back to the little eye and pull up the
information on the photograph I can actually start to assign a location right here and this was Santa
Monica Pier so it's gonna pull the address and everything and I can just click on that and now
that picture is associated with that location so really helpful even if you can't assign or
even if you don't have GPS you can still assign photos doing this method it just takes a lot lot
longer so if you have GPS highly worth it enable it on your camera don't worry about your phone's
already got it there and yeah that's that's places places really really kind of cool to be able to
again find your photos based off of location and not time or date so thanks for watching
if you like what you saw go ahead and support and subscribe and we'll see you next time you