P: GPS track limited to 50.000 points

19 replies
1007 views
Translate

Hello,

In the current version of Lightroom Classic, the GPS track used to geolocate the photos is limited to 50.000 points. It is not enough in 21e century. The modern watches are able to take the GPS position every seconds. In that case 50.000 points correspond to 14 hours only ! For the modern outdoor endurance activities like ultra-trail running, mountaineering and even long hikes it is not sufficient.

Please, extend the Lightroom Classic capacity in order to accept at least 40 hours of such a activity (UTMB like ultra-trail) = 150.000 GPS points.

BR, Maciek

Windows

Sameer K

Community Manager

The following idea has been merged into this idea:

All the votes have been transferred into this idea.

Translate

Sameer K

Community Manager

Idea merged into:

All the votes from this idea have been transferred.

Translate

johnrellis

Legend

Re the 50K point limit, please add your constructive opinion and vote to this existing feature request:

https://community.adobe.com/feature-requests-676/p-gps-track-limited-to-50-000-points-665226/index2.html?sort=oldestFirst#comments

Translate

johnrellis

Legend

I’d find this more convenient too. A workaround is to use the free utility Gpsbabel to concatenate the tracks into a single track and then load that into the Map module.

Translate

I

iohfroiherwoihewroi

Participating Frequently

Allow loading of multiple GPX files in the Map section
When I am on a trip I get one GPX file day from my tracker. Currently I have to load each file to autotag pictures. This repeats for every day. It would be nice if I could load all of the files at once and then autotag. The 50000 point limit is also too low for larger files.

Translate

johnrellis

Legend

LR doesn't use the free Google Maps -- Adobe licenses the Google Maps Platform API. To display a track log, LR calls the API to draw a polyline (path). The API documentation doesn't mention any limit on the number of points in a polyline.

The free Google Maps does limit loaded GPX tracklogs to 50K points and 5 MB. But you can create multiple layers, each with imported track logs of 50K points. I don't know if there's a maximum number of layers, but I've tested 8 layers with 50K points each. That demonstrates that the underlying Google Maps API can display polylines with at least 400K points.

It's LR, not Google, that's imposing the limit of 50K points when you load a track log. You can see that by turning off the computer's network access and loading a track log of more than 50K points. LR will display the error, "Maximum track size reached / One track has been truncated to 50,000 points."

Translate