P: Ability to geotag photos

I'd like Lightroom 6 to manage GPS data like Aperture. with my Canon 6d i need to import separately GPS tracking data, convert it with another 3rd part software and the watch my route in a 2nd moment. unbelievable on Aperture it was straight-full and easy as import pictures...the software automatically import GPS position and tracking so i know exactly my position on the map.. the route i did... and even my sight direction when i've shot a given photo!

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to make it awsome here are a few suggestion:

-add google earth view (ie 3D) it is a lot easier to position photo with a 3D environment
and a lot more fun to view.
-add street view : helps a lot to precisely position a photo
-add possibility to user other map source: openstreet map, or NASA data (no copyright) These sources could be uploaded for offline use, re-use in books, in diaporama, websites,...
Regards
Eric

Here is example of altitude and image direction use case:

I made photo in a cave. Unless you really well know the cave it is impossible to say where you took the photo.
However with the cave map overlayed on google earth and geosetter, I was able to position quite a few photos:

I used the photo direction to find in which cavity the photo was taken (when the photo was roughly parallel to the cavity direction) and the used the altutide of the photo (from manometer reading - though the camera manometer is not very precise) to adjust the photo position in the cavity (as I had a depth map of the cavity).

adding these data are not too much overkill but I am sure will be used by many.
regards

Great that then exactly working as I though it should except , that I do not get this behaviour.
I wil try to upload you the photos I am using, let me know how.
I am using windows 7 64bits on a dell precision M6500
intel core i7 q840
16 gb of ram
nvidia quadro 5000m

Some photos have their GPS data set with an olympus tough 810 (include compass info)
Some photos position and direction were wrong so I edited them with geosetter (ie exiftool)

Hi Eric,

This is a bug. You should be able to see the individual pins on the map when zooming in. And, though you cannot drag clusters of pins all at the same time, you should be able to drag a pin (representing a single photo) to a new location on the map.

I have intermittently seen the problem that you describe (pins representing individual photos disappear from the map) but can't get it to happen reliably. If you have some steps which cause the problem to happen consistently, please let me know. Please also include info about your operating system and photos (what camera were they shot with, how did the GPS metadata get into the photos, etc.)

Thanks,
Ben

by the way there seem to be a bug:
when I zoom to much and the photo are not clustered any more they disappear from the map.
It would be nice to see the individual photo position when they are not all clustered at the same place. This would also allow for another feature:
if the image position is wrong (example bad gps fix) move the marker rather than drag and drop the image again(it is alittle more natural when the image already has a marker),.

here is how I would see the ui to add the info:

altitude : just type it if not available
even better if you could retrieve it from google map (when photo is at ground level)

image direction : type it , or click a button (in the image I provide it would be the small compass in front of the text field area ) and drag and drop any where in the map. when you release the mouse button the coordinate of where the mouse is , is used to compute the image direction for all the selected photos

Location of subject: type it or click a button (in the image I provide it would be the small cross in front of the text field area ) and drag and drop any where in the map
when you release the mouse button the coordinate of where the mouse is , is used to both sets the subject location and image direction of the selected photos.



regards
Eric

Hi,
Great module there.
And I have a few more suggestion to make absolutely perfect ( which means for me: no need to use geosetter any more)

I would like to see 3 more geoinformation editable:

-the altitude or elevation of the photo. Espescially when photos are taken from above the ground (aircraft, paraglider, high building,...) Currently if the info is available it will be shown, but you won't be able to edit it or add it.

-The image direction. Very useful information. More and more camera embed this info as well. Currently you cannot even see it when present in the metadata

-Location of subject: the GPS location is from where you took the photot but what about the subject you were photographying. In many cases it would be nice to be able to set its position

(I do not see how to post image so see my next post for imge of how you could make the ui)
regards
Eric