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Find Converted Photos by Place — Hover the Pin, See the Photo

Photo Map already puts geotagged pictures on a map. Hover thumbnails are a Plus-layer map feature in Conversion Library Plus and Filecite.

·By the Legacy File Converter team
Stylized map of geotagged converted photos with a thumbnail appearing over one pin

TL;DR

After you convert a HEIC pile or an old camera dump, Photo Map puts geotagged pictures on a map. Hover thumbnails are a Plus-layer map feature in Conversion Library Plus (main) and Filecite, so you can scan by place without opening fifty files. They do not appear in Standard Legacy File Converter. The map you have today still lets you click a pin to select the file.

Converted photos are still a flat folder

Legacy File Converter will turn iPhone HEIC files and other stills into JPG or PNG on this PC. The output folder looks modern. It is still a list of IMG_3842 names. You remember the house, the trip, the street — not the camera's filename.

The map you already know

Conversion Library Plus already maps geotagged photos from the converted set. Pins mark where the pictures were taken. Click a pin to select that file. That is local navigation from coordinates already in the file, not a hosted map product.

Conversion Library Photo Map tab with geotagged pins, camera tags, and photo properties on a local library
Photo Map as it looks today: pins and place on this PC. Click a pin to select the file. Hover thumbnails are the new Plus/Filecite piece — not shown in this screenshot.

Use the map to find the vacation cluster or the house pictures by place. Use camera or year tags when you remember those instead of a filename.

Hover the pin, see the photo

Hover thumbnails are the new Plus/Filecite piece on top of that map. Rest on a pin. A thumbnail of that converted photo appears. You scan the cluster without opening fifty files, then click the one that is actually the porch, not the parking lot.

Hover lives in Conversion Library Plus and Filecite — not in Standard. We are not inventing a screenshot of that hover here. When you see it, it is on the same map you already use for place.

What this is for

  • Family archives and inherited PCs full of iPhone HEIC files.
  • Old camera dumps that already have GPS in the file.
  • Mixed conversion batches where the photos and the letters share a place.
  • Photos with no location in the file will not get a pin. That is expected.
  • Not a Standard feature and not a cloud album.

After convert

1

Convert the HEIC or camera folder with Legacy File Converter

Get the stills into JPG or PNG on this PC.

2

Open the converted set in the library and use Photo Map for place

Pins mark geotagged photos. Click a pin to select that file.

3

Hover a pin to see the photo before you open it

Hover thumbnails are the Plus/Filecite layer on the same map. Scan the cluster by place without opening fifty files.

Keep family photos on this PC

Family photos stay on this PC. Do not upload the dump to a random website to "see them on a map."

Summary

Convert the photos. Map the ones that have a place. Hover thumbnails are how you scan that map without opening every file — a Plus-layer map feature in Conversion Library Plus and Filecite, not in Standard Legacy File Converter.

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