P: Map view/module - Ability to geotag photos

I am desperately wanting a way to geotag photos from a GPX file or similar (ie writing the GPS coordinates), and then view all photos on a map. This is such a rich was to view your images, and also a quick way to find them. Lightroom Classic has had this for a long time. Please implement this feature as soon as possible, if it doesn't arrive soon, I will investigate alternatives and most likely cancel my subscription. This feature is incredibly valuable to me. 

Some cameras have GPS modules built in, but this has come less common with modern mirrorless cameras, plus the ease of using a smartphone app to record your location (Geotagr / Geotag Photos Pro 2 etc). So IMO its even more important now to have this feature. 

Map view:

1. Lightroom Classic has had this for years & years..
2. Darktable has it
3. On1 Photo Raw
4. Apple Photos has it
5. Google Photos has it

And I'm sure there are others. Please Adobe, give us this feature...

My mobile phone can do it, the geo co-ordinates are already in the meta data, but I cant seem to find a way of sifting my thousands of photos by location. When I google "map location in Lightroom" a number of suggestions come up but I can't find the map module. Where is it? It obviously exists because other uses discuss it online. Its frustrating because it should be such a simple way to find photos.

The ecosystem for geotagging photos is currently broken:

• Camera manufacturers have developed their own apps that connect to some of their cameras, but they can be buggy and slow, especially for cameras that don't have Bluetooth for camera/app pairing.
• Mobile apps exist (for example, Geotag Photos Pro and GeoTagr), but they require additional steps in the import workflow and sometimes produce sidecar files to RAW files that Lightroom CC ignores when importing.

I suggest that geotag capturing is added as a function to Lightroom Mobile, taking advantage of the location information on our phones and eliminating the need for clunky first- or third-party tagging applications:

• Before going out to photograph, a user would open Lightroom Mobile on their phone and select "Start recording location info".
• There would be options for 1 hour/4 hours/8 hours/indefinite recording.
• In the background Lightroom Mobile would save time and location data to a location log file in the user's cloud.
• When photos are imported into Lightroom at any point in the future, if there is a match between the datetime stamp on the imported photo and a datetime stamp in the location log file, the photo is tagged with that GPS location.

In addition:

• The user would need to be reminded to make sure their camera's time matches their phone time.
• They would have the option to clear their location logs manually, or to automatically delete them every 30 days.
• They would be warned that logging GPS data could reduce their battery life.
• For simplicity, they would not have access to the location log file -- it would be invisible to the end user.

This approach would give users nearly all the convenience of the built-in phone camera apps for geotagging photos, but for any digital camera while the user is in the Lightroom ecosystem.

Just adding my support for this request. 

I would like to avoid using Lightroom Classic or even an external tool to manually geotag photos. Therefore I would appreciate a geotagging feature in Lightroom CC. 

It's another topic and it's a very intresting one. If you hear Adobe's reps and official communication, there are no plans for discontinuing Classic. However, it's a secret for no one that maintaining two similar softwares is economically not the best idea. And adobe is money oriented before being product oriented. This is only my opinion as user, but my feeling is that they'll be killing (actively or passively) one solution for another. My guess (feeling) is that you'll get less and less significant classic updates at the cost of social and cloud features on cloudy.

@samuel_jessop you can use Adobe cloud from within Lightroom classic. Check out this article https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/lightroom-mobile-desktop-features.html

@antoine_hlmn I think you're absolutely right. While I love using Lightroom Classic, I am concerned that eventually the two teams will be merged, and there is the risk of losing functionality along the way.

@samuel_jessop as a general remark, and seeing the recent updates on LR mobile, it seems like focus is more en the social and learning aspects of LR than on technological aspects. If you want to keep the advanced features provided by classic, I feel you'll need to stick with classic for a bit longer. But that's just my feeling, of course, and as there is no readmap, it'as about the best you can get 😉