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Adding a Place to a photo lets people know what they're looking at, and also helps group related photos together.

If you've had trouble adding the Place, the trick is to let the computer give you a list of suggested matches, and choose from that instead of typing in the full name yourself. Here's a short (40-second) video showing how to do it:

I haven't written much these last few days. Instead I've been working down in the engine room on a couple of new features:

First is this new map. You choose a year, then it shows all the places that could be seen in that year. It gives a snapshot of Hong Kong in a given year, which will be useful when we're trying to date old photos.

Today there are more women than men in Hong Kong, but in 1853 things were very, very different

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