Stokie Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 Just looking at some images and did a search in AIM for Lichfield Cathedral. I was surprised that some images came up which didn't have Lichfield Cathedral in the tags, but I had added Cathedral in the location field by mistake. No other images of Lichfield came up in my search even though I have Lichfield in the location field, so AIM found the images purely on Cathedral in the location field. I don't know if this means that location is searchable for customers too. John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvallee Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 I got caught a couple of times with this one. I asked Alamy and their reply was that location is only searchable by us in AIM. It is not searchable by clients. There is no logic in it for me and find it very confusing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokie Posted January 16, 2020 Author Share Posted January 16, 2020 13 hours ago, gvallee said: I got caught a couple of times with this one. I asked Alamy and their reply was that location is only searchable by us in AIM. It is not searchable by clients. There is no logic in it for me and find it very confusing. It is very confusing. I do fill in the location, but I don't really know why! John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Ashmore Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 (edited) 12 minutes ago, Stokie said: It is very confusing. I do fill in the location, but I don't really know why! John. If someone zooms your image, location is listed along with other information below the image. I guess this potentially confirms or otherwise to a buyer that in some cases this is the image they need. Hypothetical example... if a British publication searched for "trees countryside", they might then spot that an image that they are interested in was taken in The USA so might not really fit their purpose so they could look again until they find an image that they were sure was taken in The UK. Edited January 16, 2020 by Matt Ashmore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ognyan Yosifov Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 8 minutes ago, Stokie said: It is very confusing. I do fill in the location, but I don't really know why! John. It could be useful in the future... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Harrison Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 (edited) I've always understood that the AIM search is the same as the main public search. In particular when you edit images in AIM then the changes are not reflected by the AIM search until the server update, which is actually rather counter-intuitive and slightly annoying when you are searching your images in order to correct captions & keywords etc. I can't explain your findings but I've just tagged a UK image in AIM with the location 'Russia' and that has not come up in the AIM search. I suppose I could leave it there and see if it does after the server update. Might be better in fact to invent a location that doesn't otherwise exist on Alamy and then try searching for it after the server update. I do believe that the Location dropdown options on the main Alamy search - so USA, UK, Europe & Australia - are only taken from the optional Location field but I think that is the only way that field is made use of currently. Edited January 16, 2020 by Harry Harrison Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 4 minutes ago, Harry Harrison said: I've always understood that the AIM search is the same as the main public search. In particular when you edit images in AIM then the changes are not reflected by the AIM search until the server update, which is actually rather counter-intuitive and slightly annoying when you are searching your images in order to correct captions & keywords etc. I can't explain your findings but I've just tagged a UK image in AIM with the location 'Russia' and that has not come up in the AIM search. I suppose I could leave it there and see if it does after the server update. Might be better in fact to invent a location that doesn't otherwise exist on Alamy and then try searching for it after the server update. I do believe that the Location dropdown options on the main Alamy search - so USA, UK, Europe & Australia - are only taken from the optional Location field but I think that is the only way that field is made use of currently. That's right, search in AIM doesn't work until the next update. I have to remind myself of that sometimes- you really need to tag a sub in one go, or you can get awfully lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokie Posted January 16, 2020 Author Share Posted January 16, 2020 4 hours ago, Ognyan Yosifov said: It could be useful in the future... Yes, I think that's why I do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ognyan Yosifov Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 Just now, Stokie said: Yes, I think that's why I do it. Me too...;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 Did you find my images of the cathedral?🙂 Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Harrison Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 Ok, yesterday I invented a new country and chose two of my images at random. In one I put it in as a keyword and in the other I put it in the Location field.Today, after the server update only the image with this new country in the keywords comes up in the search. This suggests to me that anything entered in the Location field is not searchable, apart from USA, UK, Europe & Australia as mentioned above. I've corrected the images in AIM but for one day only we have Ozstralia. Note: I put this in the wrong thread so I've copied it over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 Does Ryanair fly to Ozstralia, Harry? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Harrison Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 2 minutes ago, Ed Rooney said: Does Ryanair fly to Ozstralia, Harry? If you build it they will come! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokie Posted January 17, 2020 Author Share Posted January 17, 2020 3 hours ago, Ed Rooney said: Does Ryanair fly to Ozstralia, Harry? I think FlyBe used to.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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