Question: How to recover location meta data from old Google Photos migration

[sidamos]

I have used immich-go 2 or 3 years ago and did not realize that location information is missing from the migrated photos. I only realized that now. Those were photos taken on Android phones. They do have location information in Google Photos (I still have them there). I do not understand why the location is apparently not embedded in the exif because if it was, Immich should have found it on import, as I understand.

In the current version of immich-go, this seems to be fixed by converting Google Photos JSON metadata to Immich sidecar meta data during migration, although I would have thought that embedding it into the exif would have been better.

My question is: Is there a way to still migrate the location data from Google Photos to Immich now for my migration from 2-3 years ago?

Thanks!

Edit: Just realized that Immich Web does show a location for those photos, only the mobile app does not. Although, it is not an exact location with coordinates, just the name of the town.

[simulot]

I'm thinking about a feature to refresh immich photo's metadata with an external source. This would be useful for fixing quirks lat this one.

There a 3 sources of location with importing photos from Google Photos:

• The EXIF coordinates reported by the JSON
• The edited coordinates reported by the JSON
• The image file's exif data

Idk which is used at the end.

[sidamos]

It would also be very helpful to be able to refresh the metadata of multiple images at once. By multi-select or a whole album.