Windows Essentials

GPS Name database

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Archived post from March 4, 2014. Product: Windows Essentials – no longer developed by its maker. Details may be out of date.

Question asked on Mar 4, 2014

I understand that the names database which populates the Geotag field in PG derives from Bing Maps. But the utilization of that database is incomplete, as I discovered today. In tagging my vacation photos, I was able to assign a Geotag of "Yellowstone National Park" to my photos. But when I attempted to assign a Geotag of "Rocky Mountain National Park", PG would not accept the tag, offering a "Sorry, Photo Gallery was unable to find this location" message.

I opened Bing Maps in my browser and typed in "Rocky Mountain National Park" in the search field, and got an immediate hit, with the map centering itself perfectly over the park.

This is clearly an application bug. One would expect that all existing Bing Maps locations to be available as a Geotag in PG. Anyone else out there with this experience?

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