P: Filter by altitude?

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May 13, 2025
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Hello,

In the library module we can filter photos by metadata. There are a lot of opportunities but unfortunatelly there is no option to filter by altitude.

So now I have 3500 drone photos from photographic inventory of the 3 cooling towers on electric plant and have to manually group it into separate folders by their height.

Maybe it wuold be cool to add feature like filter by "altitude range" to group photos i.e. with altitude between 100 to 120m. Pointing the range by suer would avoid ugrouping photos with small altitude differencies such 0,1 - 0,5m

I think that this option will have value for people who do a lot of technical photographs with drones.

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szylAIR230390828j7vAuthor

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Thank You very much

johnrellis

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"I cannot type there min. and max. altitude values to group very similar altitudes, so every 10cm of difference is separated."

A couple of approaches:

1. In the Filter command, you can select multiple items if the buckets are too granular:

If a bucket is too big, you can add a second (or third) Altitude column to drill down into it:

You also change the number of buckets in the columns by clicking the Settings gear button

2. If you're looking for a specific range, use the Search command:

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szylAIR230390828j7vAuthor

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Thank You. Looks like really powerful tool. Unfortunatelly it does what I strongly didn't wanted - I cannot type there min. and max. altitude values to group very similar altitudes, so every 10cm of difference is separated. GPS in a consumer drones are not accurate to 0,1m, rather 1,5m so in my case it doesnt help at all 😄 but good to know that there is a tool like that.

johnrellis

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Unfortunately, there are many photo fields that are not searchable with LR's built-in filters and smart collections.

While waiting for Adobe to implement this, you might consider the Any Filter plugin, which lets you filter by 880 different catalog fields, including Altitude:

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