Why does Aperture show the wrong street address for manually geotagged photos?

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I manually assigned locations to some photos taken with a camera that does not record GPS data. I entered a street address, but Aperture shows a different street about 2 miles away. If I open the same library in iPhoto, the address appears correctly. Does Aperture use its own reverse-geocoding database for coordinates, and is there any way to make it use the correct street address instead of a nearby one?

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Is it possible that in Aperture it's not recognizing the full address, but only a city/state? If that's the case, then the geotagging is likely centering within a geographic range, getting you close to the right address, but not quite close enough.

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Aperture may not be resolving the full street address you entered. If it only recognizes a broader location such as the city or state, it can place the photo at a generalized point within that area, which may be nearby but not the correct street. That would explain why the result is off by a couple of miles.

Based on the available information, this looks more like an address-recognition or reverse-geocoding limitation in Aperture than a problem with the photo itself. A practical fix is to verify that the photo has the exact coordinates or a fully recognized location entry, rather than relying on a partial address match. If iPhoto shows the correct address, compare how the location is stored there versus in Aperture.

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