Can you import geodata ONLY?

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Hey All,

I shoot live music and events. I sometimes come home with thousands of images. My process is that I import all of em into Lightroom, flag the photos I edit using the star system, then filter on the unrated ones and delete those completely, including the ones on the disk.

I then use an external program to geotag all of my raw images with a location.

So... Lightroom doesn't know about that new geotag until I do "Read metadata from file." Problem is, that seems to wipe out all of my changes.

I COULD geotag ALL of my raw's before I import - I suppose that's a workaround, but it takes FOREVER to geotag 1000s of images. I'd prefer not to do that.

My question is - can you JUST import your geotag data in Lightroom? There doesn't appear to be an obvious way to do that...

Thanks all!

- Jon

dj_paige · Answer

I then use an external program to geotag all of my raw images with a location. So... Lightroom doesn't know about that new geotag until I do "Read metadata from file." Problem is, that seems to wipe out all of my changes. You need to tell LrC (if that is what you are using) to automatically write the metadata to xmp, then do your geotagging (hopefully whatever software you use will insert the geodata into the xmp file) and then in LrC you do the Read metadata from files. In this way all of your editing and metadata and geotagging wind up associated with the file after Read metadata from files. What software do you use for geotagging?

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