No location is shown for newly copied/merged photos

In certain cases, right after you copy or merge photos from one library to another using PowerPhotos, viewing those photos will show no information for the “Place” field in the inspector, even though the original photos did have location information assigned tothem.

PowerPhotos does copy across the latitude/longitude info for each photo, but after importing, Photos itself still performs the “reverse geocoding” which looks up the location of each photo and assigns a place name to it, e.g. a neighborhood, city, state, etc. This lookup process happens in the background and can take an unpredictable amount of time to complete. Until Photos finishes its lookups, PowerPhotos will not have a place name to display when viewing the photo.

You should be able to confirm the latitude/longitude got copied over by viewing the photo in the Photos app itself. You can control-click the photo in PowerPhotos and select “Reveal in Photos”, which should open the library in Photos and show that photo. Pressing command-i will then bring up Photos “Info” window, which will show the location at the bottom. If it’s still in the process of looking it up, the info window will read “Looking up location info…”. Unfortunately there’s no way to force Photos to perform the lookup immediately, you just have to wait around for a while until it decides to finish processing in the background.