Blue "globe" on thumbnails

[DigPeter]

Many of my images have gps data.  The thumbs of some of these have blue dots, others do not.  This quite a useful feature and I would like to know why?  Any offers?

Examples are attached.  The thumb of 10496 has a blue globe - this reverse geocoded;  the other does not have a blue globe and was not reverse geocoded.  In both cases the files had gps data when ingested by IM5, obtained from a gps track.

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[JohnZeman]

Have you read the build 124 release notes yet?  It explains why some do and some don't.

[DigPeter]

Have you read the build 124 release notes yet?  It explains why some do and some don't.

No - thanks.  I will read it.

[DigPeter]

The note states: The info needs to be cached once for performance reasons.
The globe will show up the next time IMatch reloads the metadata for the file, or you change a metadata value.

I have default cache prefs, which has jpg cache off.  So I assume that I need to switch it on to get the globe on all files with unchanged metadata - which will be a substantial number of files.  Is there any disadvantage in doing this?

[JohnZeman]

It's not the jpg image cache, it's the metadata cache.  Just make a small change to some metadata then if necessary writeback to the files.

[BenAW]

It's not the jpg image cache, it's the metadata cache.  Just make a small change to some metadata then if necessary writeback to the files.

No need to write anything to the files. Just select all images with GPS data, in the rightclick menu do CTRL - Rescan Now and select Reload metadata.

[DigPeter]

It's not the jpg image cache, it's the metadata cache.  Just make a small change to some metadata then if necessary writeback to the files.

No need to write anything to the files. Just select all images with GPS data, in the rightclick menu do CTRL - Rescan Now and select Reload metadata.

Thanks.  Only problem will be the shear numbers when I implement a full database (at present only a small proportion of some 3000 files).  We will see when the time comes. 

I have looked, but can find no obvious method of selecting all images with GPS data.  I assume it is a filter, but the GPS sections in the Panel and Help do not seem to provide for a global selection/search.  Neither can I work out how to do it through a metadata search.  Any help would be welcome.

[thrinn]

I remember there was a thread about selcting geo-coded images:
https://www.photools.com/community/index.php?topic=635.msg3716#msg3716

[BenAW]

I have looked, but can find no obvious method of selecting all images with GPS data.  I assume it is a filter, but the GPS sections in the Panel and Help do not seem to provide for a global selection/search.  Neither can I work out how to do it through a metadata search.  Any help would be welcome.

See this thread.

[bonsai]

Thanks.  Only problem will be the shear numbers when I implement a full database (at present only a small proportion of some 3000 files).  We will see when the time comes. 

I have looked, but can find no obvious method of selecting all images with GPS data.  I assume it is a filter, but the GPS sections in the Panel and Help do not seem to provide for a global selection/search.  Neither can I work out how to do it through a metadata search.  Any help would be welcome.

You don't have to search your images with GPS data.
Just select all your images, rescan and you are done.

[DigPeter]

See this thread.

Excellent - thanks vey much, Ben.  Done the value filter and it works