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add location tags/gps tags when missing to pictures

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Quiet
Domain
backend

Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is identified in the issue. First clarify how recognized locations should map to pictures and which bulk-update path is intended; define done as missing GPS metadata being added and the affected pictures appearing on the map.

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Description

enhancement
Describe the feature you'd like to request

hi there,
love the app, works great, but we have a tons of pictures from before phones/cameras with gps tagging, which is a pity as the pics don't show up on the map, which we love using with our pics. Recognize identifies some of the locations in the pictures, is there any way it could look up the gps locations of the recognized place and add it to that picture/the pictures that are missing a gps tag somehow?

Describe the solution you'd like

it would be good to have a solution that can handle masses of pictures, not sure, maybe just simple exiftool to add gps coordinates via cli to pic

Describe alternatives you've considered

i don't think there is an alternative, well maybe me going one by one through the pictures, looking up the location gps coordinates on the web and adding them manually?

Dominant language
PHP
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