Hi all -- I am in the process of adding geolocation data to all my older scanned photos that don't have it. So I'd like to make a query to find the photos I need to update.
I have a user-created attribute called "Location" that I created and manually populate for every photo. It generally contains an physical address or a more general description of a physical location.
What I'd like to do is create a query to enumerate all photos by their "Location" attribute, with the name of the Location and the number of photos that have the same Location value. I have never done a query in IMatch before, so I could use some pointers on how to get started with this. I'd like to be able to do an exact match on the Location attribute for the photo count, OR a relative match. Something like:
Exact match groupings:
Location Number of Photos
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Disneyland, Anaheim, CA 81
1234 Street Rd, Anywhere, MA 130
Boston, MA 93
OR relative match groupings:
Location Number of Photos
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Disneyland 81
Anaheim 251
Anaheim, CA 220
Boston, MA 93
Boston 93
MA 259
Thank you!
Bryan
I suggest you create a data-driven category based on the Attribute variable for your custom Attribute.
Say I have an Attribute Set called "Notes" with an Attribute "People.".
To group files by this Attribute, I create a data-driven category below "My Categories" and name it "People Attribute". Use a name you like, it is not important.
Tip: I prefer to collect my "expensive" (aka computing-intensive) categories below a parent category with the "Direct assignments only" option enabled. This way, when I close the parent, the expensive child categories must not be calculated.
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and the category itself is created like this (use the variable for your Location Attribute):
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This creates one child category for each unique Attribute value (Location) and the category count tells me how many files are there with this Location.