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January 30, 2016
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P: Map view/module - Ability to geotag photos

  • January 30, 2016
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I'm probably at the low end of the prosumer category when it comes to photography. I've been using Lightroom for a couple of years. I love the multiple platform feature on the new CC, but geotagging images has always been important for me (enough so that onboard GPS is a mandatory feature when I look for a camera). I had been adding locations to older images in what's now CC Classic. 

Are we going to get that ability in the new CC? 

Even more importantly, will the new AI-based search allow us to do things like pull pictures based on location? And, if so, will we be able to do things like define a radius? This was all possible when we had the maps panel, but seems to be challenging now.

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Antoine HLMN
Known Participant
August 29, 2023

@mathieud65778067 agreed! [off topic:] Or even worse: The search feature ignores album (or folder, depen) names. So try searching for that "Trip to Venice" or "Wedding Mr. Tartempion" or "Add campaign for Cola Coca". Not pro at all.

mathieud65778067
Participating Frequently
August 29, 2023

@Antoine HLMN I agree with you. We need it on LR cloud. And it's really suprising not to have it yet. Like other basic features: Search AND/OR/NOT, Smart albums....

Antoine HLMN
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August 29, 2023

@mathieud65778067 Yes 😉

The "CC" name doesn't exist anymore. It's either Lighroom "cloud" (on web, Mobile (iOS, Android, ...) and desktop) or Lightroom Classic (desktop only, but has some crippled cloud compatiblities). I don't know about LR cloud, but LR classic has this feature since forever. Apple Photos, Google Photos and virtually all other sofwares have this feature, and the location metadata are there. Not having this feature in 2023 in LR mobile makes absolutely no sense at all. It only shows that LR is not meant for serious photographers, despite what Adobe claims.

mathieud65778067
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August 29, 2023

good to know if it now exists on desktop.
@Antoine HLMN you're talking about the desktop version of LR CC, correct ?

Hopefully this gets deployed to the iPad version shortly, then

Antoine HLMN
Known Participant
August 29, 2023

* Adobe is already doing it on desktop 😉

mathieud65778067
Participating Frequently
August 29, 2023

A MAP VIEW of the pictures is another must-have, like the iOS map view of photos.

If Apple can do it on the iphone and ipad, if Google can do it on their Google Photos, surely @21062019 you are expert enough to do it as well 🙂

Participating Frequently
August 9, 2023

Had a similar answer off a rep, seems to be taking so long.

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August 7, 2023

Buenas tardes,

Con el fin de facilitar la ubicación de lugar de la toma utilizando dispositivos móviles IOS o ANDROID y como ya es posible en las aplicaciones de escritorio y web, ¿es posible añadir la visualización y geolocalización sobre un mapa del punto de la toma en IOS y ANDROID?

 

Gracias por anticipado.

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July 2, 2023

Any update here adobe?? If its been worked on for so long, whats the hold up? This is a crucial step in my workflow and its very frustrating to have continued releases with out it being in there...

colinrc
Participant
May 23, 2023

Please implement the map module on the cloud version, the version in classic works really well now and it would be fantastic to have that step of the of the workflow avialable on iOS. It is really painful to delay publishing images until I'm back at a laptop with the full version just to geocode. Pretty much the rest of the workflow can be done on the cloud version now.