Laza will probably fix it. Videos can store location data, though it might need extracting to user variables.

Two years later, still facing the same problem. Anybody out there who can fix this, please? Thanks a lot. Markus

Thanks Rob!

Sorry, I haven't noticed this thread so far.

You can also apply the location to the selected images. This way you can avoid such problems.

I believe videos can also have metadata, cannot they?

I have attached the fixed tool. I removed Audio and Other types from this version, but the code checks if the metadata exists before it tries to access the location.

Thanks Laza,

but now its worse, I even get an error if only pictures (to be honest, these are only screenshots, PNG files) are involved.

bsh.UtilEvalError: Attempt to resolve method: length() on undefined variable or class name: creator in Add same location to all.bsh at line number 152

I created a zip file with some files for testing.
https://www.markus-drueck.de/JA/10.7z

The coordinates:
60.601887,7.503842

Thanks, Markus

Rob, Laza,

thanks for your help and ideas so far.

Please try to think from a users point of view, not from a developers point of view.

A user has some objects, pictures (jpg, png, svg, gif, webp etc.), PDFs, videos.

Now this user wants do give all these objects location data. Don't ask if this makes sense from your point of view. It makes sense from the users point of view.

And now things get bad, really bad, because if you enter the location data in the "Postion" pane on the right side for a video it seems that JA accepts the location data. But it does not. Which is super frustrating, because there is no feedback from the GUI that this is not possible.

This is one of many big fails in the GUI of JA which make me sick for years now. And I'm surprised that David doesn't fix this.

And no, I don't want to use some extra tools to get location data in files other than jpg. The JA GUI should handle that for me. If your answer is, many files don't allow to store meta data like location data, don't tell me that, I don't care how you solve that problem, but solve it. Just a thought, why don't JA store location data in "info" files of the objects?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<java version="22" class="java.beans.XMLDecoder">
 <object class="java.util.HashMap">
  <void method="put">
   <string>keywords</string>
   <string>Bahnhof, Baustelle, Finse, WebCam</string>
  </void>
  <void method="put">
   <string>userVariables</string>
   <object class="java.util.LinkedHashMap">
    <void method="put">
     <string>xWeight</string>
     <string>0.5</string>
    </void>
    <void method="put">
     <string>yWeight</string>
     <string>0.4947</string>
    </void>
   </object>
  </void>
  <void method="put">
   <string>title</string>
   <string>Finse</string>
  </void>
 </object>
</java>

I don't see any problem to add a section to store the location data here?

And by the way there is already some kind of trick to add location data for files other than jpg. Using the user variable "gpsLocation", but this is an awful „solution“.

So, please, make adding location data to every file type work. I'm sure that this a no-brainer for team Sweden.

Cheers, Markus

Thanks Rob! Yes, now the tool works. Videos are not a problem any more, they don't through any errors. Cheers, Markus