P: Add image direction in Map module

I have pins showing direction in my site:
http://www.fjellfotografen.se/Karta/Norrbotten/St%C3%A4der+&+Samh%C3%A4llen/Pite%C3%A5

It could not be to hard to implement that in Lightroom - and it would be a very nice feature...
I would also like to have the possibility to see direction in degrees in the direction line - not just north, south aso.

Best regards
Tomas

 

Hi Mikkel,

yes, this would be great. Unfortunately EXIF has no fields for pitch and roll, yet. Only yaw (heading).
It would be good reason to do a new version of EXIF Standard and add those fields.

Cheers
Seb

This feature is among my top requested features for Lightroom (or any other photo managing software I would consider to use). Currently I prefer Geosetter as my main photo managing software due to this feature (and it's ability to - at least - show face tags in photos) - and this program is completely free!

Regarding the implementation for this feature in Lightroom: In theory you could go one step further and include the horizontal angle as well. A photo taken in real life can be seen as a vector in a 3-dimensional space. You have the shooting location (longitude, latitude and altitude), and the shooting direction in all three dimensions (not only north/south & east/west). I don't know if any cameras/GPS-extenstions do even record the horizontal shooting angle currently, but if including the shooting direction, why not do it "right" in the first place? :)

I sincerely hope to see this feature implemented in Lightroom - it would be a game changer for me! :)

Best regards, Mikkel

This is a really cool feature that is more and more needed as camera that write down this informatin get more and more commune.
It is not really difficult to implement.
At least we should be able to read it in a lightroom 4.3
By reading it I think of a text field that displays the compass reading (Geographic or magnetic north + value of the heading)
It would be even more cool to be able to edit that field.
I see it as the same problem we had with the altitude.

In a second time we could have a full featured functions that displays the direction on the map and let us edit it from there.

I suggest reading the feature request that got this function added to geosetter to get some ideas about the pitfalls and nice coul think that can be implemented.:

http://www.geosetter.de/mantis/view.p...

You will also be able to find other programs that are able to read and set this info.
from this thread.

Hello Thomas,

if EXIF is not erased it should stay and be found in the DGN.

Choose a software to show image heading from this search result suitable to your OS:
http://gps-camera.eu/component/search...

For Windows the best so show compass direction is: http://www.geosetter.de
Free but it is worth to donate, I think.

Hello Thomas,

if EXIF is not erased it should stay and be found in the DGN.

Choose a software to show image heading from this search result suitable to your OS:

Free but it is worth to donate, I think.

Hello Thomas,

if EXIF is not erased it should stay and be found in the DGN.

Choose a software to show image heading from this search result suitable to your OS:

Free but it is worth to donate, I think.

I just do my first steps into geotagging. On my trip to Dubai I took photos with the Canon 5DMkIII and the Canon GP-E2 GPS receiver which has a compass function.
LR showed the GPS coordinates correctly in the metadata and on the map.

My question: although LR does not support the direction info yet, does it keep the info from the RAW files during import? I convert to dng. So if I export the files to jpg including exif infos, is the direction included so I can use other software to show it on maps?

Checked. They were all but the FT4 in the original List. Just not marked as "GPS + Compass"
So is is 5 or six more units cameras with compass on board

Panasonic recently added the DMC FT4 to the list