Allow lon keyword as an alternative for longitude #1994

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opened 2026-02-20 01:04:02 -05:00 by deekerman · 4 comments

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Originally created by @khaytsus on GitHub (Dec 31, 2023).

Describe what problem this solves and why this would be valuable to many users
In almost every context I've ever seen, the short way to say latitude longitude is lat lon. So every time I search in PhotoPrism I always wind up trying lat:NN lon:NN and it doesn't work. Could lon be added as a secondary search token? Not suggesting changing lng, just adding a secondary way to do it.

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Just allow lon:NNN as a way to search by longitude.

Originally created by @khaytsus on GitHub (Dec 31, 2023). **Describe what problem this solves and why this would be valuable to many users** In almost every context I've ever seen, the short way to say latitude longitude is lat lon. So every time I search in PhotoPrism I always wind up trying lat:NN lon:NN and it doesn't work. Could lon be added as a secondary search token? Not suggesting changing lng, just adding a secondary way to do it. **Describe the solution you'd like** Just allow lon:NNN as a way to search by longitude.

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@lastzero commented on GitHub (Dec 31, 2023):

The search filter to use for longitude is lng, see the following overview:

https://www.photoprism.app/kb/search-filters

@lastzero commented on GitHub (Dec 31, 2023): The search filter to use for longitude is `lng`, see the following overview: - https://www.photoprism.app/kb/search-filters

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@khaytsus commented on GitHub (Dec 31, 2023):

The search filter to use for longitude is lng, see the following overview:

https://www.photoprism.app/kb/search-filters

Well, yes, I'm aware :) Which is why I mentioned "lng" several times.

@khaytsus commented on GitHub (Dec 31, 2023): > The search filter to use for longitude is `lng`, see the following overview: > > * https://www.photoprism.app/kb/search-filters Well, yes, I'm aware :) Which is why I mentioned "lng" several times.

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@lastzero commented on GitHub (Dec 31, 2023):

Oh, I just read "an alternative for longitude" and then thought you also tried "lng". I think if we have both, that could be confusing too, at least if it's officially documented...

@lastzero commented on GitHub (Dec 31, 2023): Oh, I just read "an alternative for longitude" and then thought you *also* tried "lng". I think if we have both, that could be confusing too, at least if it's officially documented...

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@lastzero commented on GitHub (Dec 31, 2023):

Note that we want to have some kind of autocomplete for the search filters at some point, but we haven't had time to implement that ourselves yet, and no one else has contributed it either. Supporting all possible variants of filter names is a workaround we'd like to avoid.

@lastzero commented on GitHub (Dec 31, 2023): Note that we want to have some kind of autocomplete for the search filters at some point, but we haven't had time to implement that ourselves yet, and no one else has contributed it either. Supporting all possible variants of filter names is a workaround we'd like to avoid.