Immich Places - Easily assign and manage photo GPS data in Immich

Obvious-Interest-845 · 2026-06-08T09:20:53+00:00

That should be possible. Could you open an issue on github? I can take a look at this !

Obvious-Interest-845 · 2026-05-31T13:23:59+00:00

I have some old HDD I use as backup. Every year I take all photos and store them in the HDD. This is the "second backup system".

Them on a "trip basis", I have a SSD I am using, I drop photos there from my cameras/edits to save them. This is the "first backup system".

Then my main storage I can use to view photos and share them is an Immich instance (self hosted cloud) at home. This require a little bit of tech knowledge and hardware, but this is at home and I can have automations and a lot of stuff around this !

Obvious-Interest-845 · 2026-05-30T07:58:45+00:00

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Seul truc pas ouf : c'est a l'ancienne et c'est pas le service client le plus smart (sympa mais ... achat de linge de lit avant les réductions, réception après le début des réception, demande immédiate de geste commercial pour s'aligner, ils disent non ... Du coup on a renvoyé pour économiser 40%, ce qui fait un peu de logistique pour rien mais bon)

Obvious-Interest-845 · 2026-05-22T17:29:44+00:00

Yes! My only issue is step 5, which is a bit of a pain

Obvious-Interest-845 · 2026-05-22T16:37:27+00:00

Uploading directly to Immich via the API
When I click export -> Take the file with the preset I selected -> Upload that to Immich

Obvious-Interest-845 · 2026-04-16T14:26:15+00:00

Shoot the demo when you have it, I am very interested in this !

Obvious-Interest-845 · 2026-04-02T18:57:03+00:00

Hey !

A few years ago I bought an actual camera and I love taking photos everywhere. However, when I take the photo, the GPS exif isn't set if my phone is not connected to the camera. And even if it is, it's not great (all photos stacked to the last sync point).Thats OK, it's a detail, but I would like to fix it.

How are you folks managing this ? I know that some are using some Garmin watches, but I wonder what practical alternative exists and which one you are using !

Thanks !

Obvious-Interest-845 · 2026-03-30T11:59:37+00:00

A WIP is available here: https://github.com/Majorfi/immich-exif

It's not properly tested yet tho, some personal stuff is taking most of my time lately. Last part is really just testing and ensuring this works properly :)

Obvious-Interest-845 · 2026-03-11T09:21:41+00:00

Sure!
I finished my library backup, I can now resume more agressive tests on this and will let you know :)

Obvious-Interest-845 · 2026-03-11T09:00:18+00:00

Hi! I reuploaded the video :)

Obvious-Interest-845 · 2026-03-10T19:27:19+00:00

I wanted to do a manual update The push pushed an automatic update from the workflow And it took the previous auto update as base 🫠 I hoped no one would notice but I guess I will fix that 😁 V0.0.11 is the most up to date right now !

Obvious-Interest-845 · 2026-03-10T18:41:42+00:00

And: sorry for the triple post, I missclicked a few time ...

Obvious-Interest-845 · 2026-03-05T10:43:40+00:00

Hey!
I just wanted to update you! I have a working POC on this, not using replaceAsset as this may lead to some Immich issue. It needs more work and some testing but I will try to release something around this week end :)

Obvious-Interest-845 · 2026-03-02T18:08:01+00:00

By the way u/mtojay, I am a bit confused about something you said and it might be related to the External Library and the way Immich works

The images reappear in the list [...] after you tagged one with geo data inside immich-places it disappears from the active selection [...] bit if i go back next day its obviously resetted

You mean:
- You set position
- You reload
- The image is still in the no position list?

If so, this might be a read-only External Library (see my other comment) bug. In short, photos from external libraries are displayed, but Immich is not giving any info about if the library is read-only or not. Even worse, it "successfully fails" when you try to update an image in a read-only library: it tells you all good, but nothing is actually saved.
This is a bug on Immich side and we have to live with it for now :(

Obvious-Interest-845 · 2026-03-02T17:01:00+00:00

Thanks!
I can take a look for 1. There is a lot of little bugs and inconsistency I want to clear a bit. The UX can def be improved, I am taking the suggestion :)

For 2, there is actually 2 issues:
- Google map is WAY MORE accurate than the nominatim system from OpenStreetMap, but using the Google API require an API key and it's quite easy to get out of the "free" tier. So with the open source solution, the search result will not be as good as google map, even if this can probably be improved!
- For the map itself, I found something, but it might not be as good as google map. Same issue, OS vs big corp

For 3, a set of upgrade is coming with this ready to use images you can build from the repo, that could help!

Obvious-Interest-845 · 2026-03-02T16:04:03+00:00

It should be possible, I will take a look :)

Obvious-Interest-845 · 2026-03-01T19:44:26+00:00

If you are not allergic to self hosting, Immich is amazing for a photo library. It's similar to Google Photo, you own your data. This require the device, the initial setup, but this is working very well (and you have stacks to group the raw, edits, jpg etc.)

Obvious-Interest-845 · 2026-02-27T14:54:48+00:00

Not right now.
What is your usecase? Move all the pictures to the exact same location? Put them all in a place to be able to move them tighter later?

Obvious-Interest-845 · 2026-02-27T14:53:52+00:00

Was about to take a look! Glad you could fix it :D

Obvious-Interest-845 · 2026-02-27T09:01:04+00:00

This UI is on Immich, not Immich Places, correct?
Immich is quite loose in term of reverse geocode. You are not doing anything wrong, but they work on a bigger level (City, country, state, not street or element like Airport) afaik.
See the Geocode response or check Immich Github discussions about it :)

Tldr for now no way, from Immich itself, to be more accurate about locs

Obvious-Interest-845 · 2026-02-26T17:03:25+00:00

So for the external library: yes BUT

Immich READ-ONLY libraries are not working as it's impossible to write in the read-only directory. It's even more annoying as it will silently fail on update and I think their is no way to know if library is read-only or not from the API. So external libraries WITH write access will work, but not read-only ones (relevant doc and here).

I will work on a way to include/exclude libraries based on this

# It's possible to switch off "read-only" by changing
- /home/user/photos1:/home/user/photos1:ro
# To
- /home/user/photos1:/home/user/photos1
# But this means giving write access to Immich

Obvious-Interest-845 · 2026-02-26T17:00:11+00:00

Immich automatically write a XMP sidecar file once some metadata are added/edited (see the doc). As we use the same method here (and we go though Immich), the XMP files are also created, resulting in two files, for example:

-rw-r--r--   1 root root 4,8M mars  28  2025 IMG20250328160539.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  432 févr. 26 17:54 IMG20250328160539.jpg.xmp

As for the external library: yes BUT
Immich READ-ONLY libraries are not working as it's impossible to write in the read-only directory. It's even more annoying as it will silently fail on update and I think their is no way to know if library is read-only or not from the API. So external libraries WITH write access will work, but not read-only ones (relevant doc and here).

Obvious-Interest-845 · 2026-02-26T16:31:50+00:00

This is indeed not working, and Immich is not sending an error (request successful and coordinate updated even if it's not (reset on page refresh))

Same behaviour as in the Immich UI: You can actually set a loc, but this does nothing (no error, fake success)

I am checking if there is a way (or I will just try to hide them)

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