P: GPS track limited to 50.000 points

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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

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maciejr47668296Author

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Even with Garmin watch configured to take one GPS point only when direction change, I’m limited to about 17 hours. I cannot upload a complete track of Swiss Peaks 100k. Imagine the track of UTMB (100 miles) or Tor de Géants (330 km) !!! Unfortunately, I’m not Kilian Jornet, I can’t run UTMB under 20 hours !

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Bob Somrak

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I agree that a limit should not be necessary but having a point every second even during running is unnecessary.

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johnrellis

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I agree that there should be no practical limit (except total memory available to LR).

While waiting for Adobe to implement this (which could be a very long time), as a workaround you could use the well-supported (and free) utility GPSBabel. Filter the track to remove points that are closer than, say, 3 meters or are separated in time by less than, say, 5 seconds. That will let you import these larger tracklogs while sacrificing little in meaningful data.

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iohfroiherwoihewroi

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I had ChatGPT write a python script that combines all my GPX files into one and then filters the points by every minute. That works reasonably well unless I was in a moving car.

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maciejr47668296Author

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The plugging you refer to doesn’t help.

It is a Ligthroom limitation which has no sense in the 21e century.

And I’m just kindly asking Lightroom developers to lift this limitation in order to make Ligthroom better !

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maciejr47668296Author

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I’m referring to my Garmin watch (Fenix 7) GPS track which I’m trying to import into Ligthroom (Map -> Load Tracklog). Lightroom truncate the Garmin GPS tracklog of 21 hours of activity to 50.000 points with the message : “Maximum track size reached. One track has been truncated to 50 000 points.”

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