P: Ability to geotag photos

Maybe ingestamatic would help?

http://imageingester.com/ingestamatic...

I would also like to see better GPS importing features in Lightroom. Currently I use Geosetter for geotagging (as it creates sidecar files) and Lightroom has not probs with reading it. But idealy,

I would love to be able to import a GPX or similar file right into Lightroom and have the GPS metadata added to the files.

I would like a function to geotag my photos like it is possible using GeoSetter http://www.geosetter.de (using maps or synchronising with GPS-Tracks). As an addon the possibility to use this feature offline (e.g. with pre-downloaded maps) would be fine for shootings without net-connectivity.

Or allow a better integration with Jeffrey Friedl's plugin, so that shadow metadata isn't necessary anymore (i.e. this will get rid of the extra step consisting in reading metadata from file).

There already is a similar topic (asking among other the integration with google earth) It would be nice to merge them.

Having geocoding into Lightroom (without plugins) would really be great.
And do not forget to add bearing data. More and more camera include this ( I know at least 4 different compact doing this and all Nikon DSLR and Pentax DSLR have attachable GPS unit that can provide this metadata).It is really great then to look at the photo in Google earth with the correct orientation.
Geosetter is one of the few programs that allow you to set this info and/or view it as well.

Last it would be great to make a filter based on geodata (position, altitude and bearing) as do one of Jeffrey Friedl plugins (but not convenient as it forces you to create more tables in the database,...)

regads

Why *are* the geotagging fields hidden unless you import a photo that already has geocoded metadata? If the idea was to preserve geotagging data integrity, this approach seems almost backwards to me!

The OP is basically describing Aperture's "Places" feature. He may be as envious of it as I am. While searching my Lightroom collection via old-school location fields is great, it is indeed the "old" way. On the other side of the fence, as great as Jeffrey Friedl's Geoencoding Plugin is (now with reverse geoencoding support!), it's still a plug-in... one with its own "shadow database."

It's wonderful that there are more and more new cameras with built-in geotagging. The same goes for the increasing number of accessories that enable cameras to do geotagging that otherwise couldn't. However, until the technology is pervasive, it would be great if Lightroom gave us the option to add geographic metadata.

[I posted a similar response on this topic on the old LR forum's site a long time ago, but I'm re-posting since the topic has come up again.]

P.S. - Why doesn't Adobe just hire Jeffrey Friedl already?! 😉

Love to be able to add GPS coordinates to photos without blowing away all the old metadata or using a secondary database

Thank you. It would be even better if I could see all the places where I took photos on a map.

Request noted. 🙂 Just trying to help by telling you what you can do right now, if you so choose.

-Ben

I would like to see this ability to be integrated into Lightroom itself. The plugin is great but has to work with "shadow Data". The process of writing GPS data to the exif fields is kind of awkward.