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Inspiring
January 23, 2012

P: Latitude/longitude search wildly inaccurate in Map module

  • January 23, 2012
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Hi,

Lightroom 4 beta seems great so far (I'm an LR3 user), but the maps feature (which I'm most excited about) exhibits perplexing behaviour when searching for a specific lat/long in non-urban areas.

Repro steps:

  1.  
  2. Paste the following lat/long (-27.033813,153.465791) into the maps.google.com UI and search. Google maps places 2 markers on the map:

  3. a green arrow showing the actual position (a helipad on Moreton Island, Australia)
  4.  
  5. a red blob showing the nearest house (in a resort on the same island but 18 kilometres away).
  6.  
  7. Paste the same lat/long into the Lightroom 4 beta "maps" module search and note that LR4beta is treating the nearest house as the result, not the actual lat/long (i.e. the helipad).
  8.  



Note that repeating these steps for an urban lat/long (e.g. the position of your house) produces very accurate results.

This may be a limitation with the google maps API, but it is an unexpected (and unwanted behaviour). Entering a lat/long should take you to that spot, not to some house in the 'nearest' town (which in australia can be a few hours drive away).

28 replies

johnrellis
Legend
October 19, 2015
Very curious. Just now I pasted them into the search boxes of LR maps and Google maps, and they came out a couple hundred feet apart, as shown in the screenshots in my post from a couple of days ago: https://forums.adobe.com/message/8073843. I wonder what accounts for the difference? (CC 2015.1.1 / OS X 10.10.5)
Legend
October 19, 2015
Accidentally merged into wrong topic. Breaking out to merge into the correct one

Please reference the new conversation here: Issue with Map Module in HiDPI
Participating Frequently
October 19, 2015


Dragging a photo to a place in map module places photo in wrong location.
No longer possible to add location to a photo this way in Lightroom CC.
Participating Frequently
October 19, 2015
I'm not able to reproduce the problem using those coordinates, John. Lightroom and Google maps give me exactly the same result.
johnrellis
Legend
October 19, 2015
These coordinates also show the issue: 37.386683, -122.266930
Participating Frequently
October 19, 2015
I'm not able to reproduce this issue using the coordinates from the original poster (Lightroom correctly places me at the helicopter pad). I am, however, able to reproduce the bug using the coordinates from Styrbjörn (Lightroom and Google maps produce different results).

I'll report this issue to the engineers. In the meantime, let's just cross our fingers and hope that Lewis's readers are smart enough to stay out of moving traffic, no matter what we may suggest. ;-)

-Ben
Participating Frequently
October 16, 2015
Please fix this Geotagging bug. Not only is it inconvenient but it is also dangerous. I am writing a guide and Lightroom (adobe) is taking my readers from the safety of a parking lot and placing them on a highway. NOT COOL!
johnrellis
Legend
October 16, 2015
Someone else just tripped over this bug: https://forums.adobe.com/message/8073843
Inspiring
October 16, 2015


Lightroom use Google Maps.
Then I wonder why, when I search the coordinate 61°0'22" N 15°11'20" E (caught from the "real" Google Maps) in Lightroom it acctualy place them at the coordinates 61°0'37" N 15°12'12" E? Not far away but still very wrong.
It don ́t seem to be so with other coordinates.

Regards
Björn
johnrellis
Legend
October 16, 2015
This bug still exists in LR CC 2015 / 6.