Quoting greatgrandmaR
Also I do not know exactly what the mapping gets me. What can I do with the mapped photos - except find them more easily.
I explained a bit about the benefits you get from giving locations to your photos here.
Mapping your Photos
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OK, I've committed so much time I may as well carry on and try to finish, but I've decided not to try to be so careful about the mapping - as long as the photo is in roughly the right place I'm happy for now, as many will end up being deleted.
It would help for the next phase if I knew how best to sort by location within a country - i.e. London rather than England, Delhi rather than India. I can use Katherin's suggestion of Control and F to search a page, but most of my countries will have many pages. If I'm going to successfully weed out duplicates and rubbish I really need to be able to see all the photos in a specific location at a time. I haven't come across a way to do that but am I missing something?
If you have them mapped, try a filter by country & then sort by 'date taken' or 'mapped to' or some combination that suits you.
If a place as opposed to a country is tagged, you can filter on that.
With the pagination as it is now, I think you are limited to 100 at a time even if you modify the URL to start at a different point.
You can modify the URL, as Peter has explained somewhere, to show any number of photos you want in one page. I usually set mine to 20,000 to see and search all of them at once.
By the way, there seems to be a misunderstanding in what I suggested above: I am not using the Map but the list under the Manage header.
I did realise that you are using the list Katherin but I am doing an initial mapping with the map, for speed. The problem is, Steve, that using the map means I've been unable to tag, and with only 100 filtered country photos shown at a time, spotting duplicates will be hard, leading to further unnecessary work on photos that eventually will be deleted.
But if there's no shortcut I will plod in as I am!
If I enter photos to go with a trip report (because it is easier to do that than to try to find them) why do I still have to map and date them?
Sarah, I'm using the page that shows 100 and ticking the boxes of all in the same place. Scrolling over the photo makes it large enough to see well. Then I go up to Edit at the top and all selected photos are listed. Open these in a new tab so you can go back to your original page that you will have to update. I tag each photo with appropriate search terms and then go to the location box and type in the name of the town and choose it when it appears with the correct country. This gets everything in the proper town and country and I can do more later. If its a major attraction, i.e. Cluny Museum, Paris, I type that and it is correctly mapped and I don't have to modify it later.
It's time consuming but there is little forum action so there is time. As the forum picks up, it will be harder so now is the time to do it.
Quoting ToonSarah
The problem is, Steve, that using the map means I've been unable to tag, and with only 100 filtered country photos shown at a time, spotting duplicates will be hard, leading to further unnecessary work on photos that eventually will be deleted.
But if there's no shortcut I will plod in as I am!
If the duplicate photos also have duplicate titles, then sort by title & the duplicates will group together.
Steve
Good idea Steve (sorry I can't use the quote function as I'm on the phone!) Unfortunately they don't always have the same title as they were used in different tips on VT l. But that should certainly help with many of them 