Immich is exactly what you're looking for. Debugging the installation problem will be a lot less work with a way better result than trying to get Nextcloud to do what you want.
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Memories has come a long way.
I don’t think it has the specific features you requested, sorry. But I like it as something that’s baked into my Nextcloud container (esp. as I haven’t had the time to set up Immich yet).
I didn't realize Memories had a mobile app, and it has literally both of the features xD Looks near identical to Google photos, and has map pins in the app. Sweet, ty!
No mobile app…at least not iOS. Did you find one for Android?
I just place a bookmark to the web interface on my home screen to trick me into the “app feel”.
There's one on F-Droid, yeah
Did nextcloud ever fix the bug that would randomly destroy date metadata on photos and reset it to 1970? I had about 20% of my library affected (thank backup of backups!)
I was never able to get .heic previews working properly 2 years back either.
I'm using Immich now and its a lot less of a hassle after leaving beta and breaking changes behind
Was this images that were auto uploading from a mobile phone? I think the bug was a permission issue in Android, if you don't grant location access it can't get any of the meta data of the photo (iirc).
I'd debug immich. A good Photo pins on a map can be done with reitti but I think that connects to immich as a backend.
Sometimes the tool you want to use just isn't right and you have to make it yourself. (I speak from Experience
Like others have said, Immich is great for this. It's damn near a copy of Google Photos without all the Google which is very nice. Fair warning however, I'm about to enter week two of backing up. I've got 14000+ assets to upload, and from what I've seen the first upload is the most brutal. Good luck, traveler!
Week two?
I was able to upload 57k assets via the web browser without much trouble. I just did it in bulk operations or a year or two at a time to prevent the interface framerate from dropping.
I don't remember this taking me more than a couple days mostly not touching it.
FYI, you can point to an external library somewhere else in your NAS folders. Then the only thing left for Immich to do is to make thumbnails and face detection.
Something maybe wrong? I have 58k photos and it didn't take anywhere near that long. If memory serves, I just let it rip overnight and it was done the next day.
https://www.photoprism.app/ might be worth a look, the map feature is included and I found the auto classification not too bad (already a while ago).
Having a world map that has pins on it based on location EXIF data in photos
Don’t you get that in NC already, if you go to Maps > My Photos ?