I added the new photo uploading tool. It allows you to upload multiple photos at one time. If your photos are geotagged, it should automatically detect it and assign a location (which can be changed). Instructions are on the page if needed. I'll still make a few tweaks to it, but this should be much better than the old method, especially when uploading all of the photos from one trip.

If your camera doesn't geotag photos and you use a GPS, I've had very good success using geotagging tools that determine where a photo was taken by comparing the GPS track with the photo's date/timestamp. One such tool is GeoSetter. Garmin's BaseCamp also has a geotagging tool built-in. For best success, you need to have your GPS on whenever you are traveling so you have an accurate track.

This should also mostly fix your location selection problem. The first time it comes up, the map will still be over the BWCA/Quetico (still need to fix that), but after making one selection, it will remember your last location and automatically go to that one. This is only for the new photo upload tool. Changing existing photos still follows the old process.

When I post photos and want to enter location, I click on the “None” and the map appears – in small scale and satellite photo mode over Quetico. To enter the location of a photo in another park, for example Algonquin, I have to zoom out and then drag over to Algonquin, zoom in, set the background to “CALTOPO”, zoom in some more, look for the lake and finally I can find the location of the photo.

My wish would be to be able to set a default map with zoom and background that would appear when I click on “None”. Alternately and just as big a help, or maybe more, would be to have the last used map zoom and background appear when I click on “None”.

P.S. I find PaddlePlanner so good a website that I'm almost embarassed to make suggestions.