Comment by mass_and_energy

> Allow this device to privately match places in your photos with a global index maintained by Apple so you can search by almost any landmark or point of interest.

Couldn't they just make a k/v database that has coordinates of landmarks and then just pass the lat/long from the picture's EXIF in an API call for lookup in said DB when the user wants to make use of this feature? Isn't this part of why we have geotagging?