Map Panel - Find Location - Previous Entries

[OffPeak]

I've been geolocating countless scanned photos lately, and frequently enter something in "Find Location".
It would be helpful (to me) if there was a drop-down in that entry box showing what has been entered recently (like many other drop-down boxes).

[Mario]

Are all these locations / search terms different? In that case a history would be flooded and older entries would vanish quickly...

Maybe instead keep a list of recent locations ("search strings") in IMatch Notepad for a quick copy & paste?
Or create Locations you can quickly reuse and re-apply?

[OffPeak]

It seems like I enter the same ones over and over again, as go through (family) scans.  I don't know if that's typical. 
If it had 7 - 10 previous entries, it might save (me) 50% of my entry time.  I'm about done scanning, so I personally probably won't get much more benefit from it.
I have kept some more frequent strings in Notepad, but...
Didn't know about creating locations; that might have helped.  I, like probably most Imatch users, probably don't use much more than 10% of the features!  I learn more as I use it more.

Another thing that I noticed, is that if I type something in the box, and hit RETURN, it kicks me out of that window, back to the map panel.  I seem to hit RETURN a lot.

[jch2103]

If you frequently use several sets of locations (country/state/city/location and possibly coordinates) you might consider using Metadata Templates https://www.photools.com/help/imatch/md_templates.htm that assign all those (repeating) metadata tags. That makes it quick and easy to assign the data. Setup is pretty straightforward. 

[Mario]

7 to 10 different locations can be handled by

1) IMatch Locations like I suggested or
2) Metadata Templates as John suggested

Every time you do repeating work, IMatch has features to help with that.

If you already have a file placed at a GPS coordinate, you can right-click the file flag and create a location from that file.
Maybe make some adjustments and save it.
Now you can apply the same location quickly in the future to other files.

I would consider it 10 minutes well spent learning about IMatch Locations.

You can "goto" locations quickly in the Map Panel. You can find files nearby a location. You can filter files by their location.
Applying a location to a file can also set the location data like country, city etc., add keywords and so one.
A real time-saver.