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May 27, 2012
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P: Improve control over reverse-geocoded Location metadata

  • May 27, 2012
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LR 4.1rc2 under Windows 7 x64The reverse-geocoding function of LR4 is a great feature and a potential time-saver, yet it can lead to some minor disasters.Specifically, there is currently no way to "stabilize" the location metadata that has been automatically filled by LR (displayed in gray italics). Editing any value by hand e.g. a misspelled City name, leads to all other fields (Country, State, Sublocation) being emptied - problematic when filters are effective on these fields, as the photo suddenly disappears and end up with partly missing location info.Possible remedies: when location info has been automatically filled by LR :- provide (only in such a case) a checkbox offering to "keep these values", so they can from then on be appear as 'normal' metadata, and be edited as such without some tricky behaviouror- make these auto-filled values separate from each other, allowing to edit one without discarding all the others. That would also allow the reverse-geocoding feature to work with any photo which has *some* location fields empty, not only those which have *all* (that is: Reverse-geocoding would always fill missing values, yet keeping any user-defined ones - let's assume photographers know better than Google where they have been shooting...)My preference would rather go to the first solution, as it appears to give more control without making the inner workings of reverse-geocoding too complex.

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    berliner_ffm
    berliner_ffm
    Inspiring
    April 10, 2016



    Its still not added. For example, if u want to put geodata in a photobook it only recognizes comitted values. There is a workaround for exported pictures as described above and also search recognises uncommitted values, but the book module doesnt. A fix would be very much welcomed.

    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    April 10, 2016
    Rearranging.

    Please reference the new conversation here: Lightroom 5: problems with GeoTagging and Comitting
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    humulu
    Participant
    April 10, 2016


    I am using LR5 and enabled reverse geocoding. The images that have the GPS coordinates automatically get the city, state and country. They are in italic gray. When selecting Metadata->Save Metadata to File it is actually NOT written to the file. In order for this to work I first need to click on the label for City and select the city, click on the label for State/Province to select the State/Province, click on the label for Country and select the country, click on the label ISO Country Code and select the ISO Country Code and THEN select "Save Metadata to File". This is extremely inefficient

    We need a one-click solution so that we can commit ALL the reverse GeoTag information for ALL THE SELECTED IMAGES.
    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    January 17, 2016
    That's not good. Please contact me at my support email address: http://www.johnrellis.com/lightroom/a...
    LarryLMMMTT
    LarryLMMMTT
    Participating Frequently
    January 17, 2016
    John,

    Thanks for the response. I had used Jeffrey's, but hadn't found your plugin. Been trying again with both. I tried your plug-in the other day, and it seemed to be working. Today I tried Jeffrey's again, geoencoding from a track log, and it did geoencode, but the data was stored in gray text, just like Lightroom! So, then I tried to commit the data with your plug-in, and I got an error. I've tried several times (including closing Lightroom and opening it again), but I always get a failure message. Any idea what this might be?
    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    January 12, 2016
    There are now two plugins for working around this deficiency in LR:

    - The Geoencoding Support plugin is the best solution for those who spend a lot of time tagging their photos with locations: http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-good...

    - For those who wish to stick with LR's geoencoding, my Any Tag plugin now has commands for finding and committing the locations automatically added by LR (in gray font): http://www.johnrellis.com/lightroom/a...
    hreinard
    hreinard
    Participating Frequently
    January 9, 2016
    It's indeed incredible. But in the moment LR gives me the best overview over my pictures. So I stay...
    LarryLMMMTT
    LarryLMMMTT
    Participating Frequently
    January 9, 2016
    Thanks, Richard. You are right, and I have done that before (GeoSetter does the trick), but I continue to be surprised the Lightroom, all these years on, can't fix what is seemingly a very easy problem.
    hreinard
    hreinard
    Participating Frequently
    January 9, 2016
    There is still a problem with geocoding. Sometimes it work in LR sometime with the plugin from Jeffrey Friedl. But the best way is to use an app outside of LR and sync all folders after that is done. Not really elegant, but it works 😞
    hreinard
    hreinard
    Participating Frequently
    January 9, 2016
    There is still a problem with geocoding. Sometimes it work in LR sometime with the plugin from Jeffrey Friedl. But the best way is to use an app outside of LR and sync all folders after that is done. Not really elegant, but it works 😞
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