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Henrik Eidem Kurka
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September 16, 2013
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Is it possible to get the location fields for reverse geocoded photos (grey text)

  • September 16, 2013
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I try to find a way to fix the location names reverse geocoded by Lightroom that are shown in grey

I.e. I would like to change them to permanent - white. Since there is no easy way to do this within LR 5 (other than fixing a photo one by one) I tried to create a plugin, but when I use photo:getFormattedMetadata ("country") for example, I just get an empty string back even if it reads "Iceland" in the interface.

Any suggestions (I am very new to writing plugins for LR)?

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johnrellis
johnrellis
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September 17, 2013

Unfortunately, the SDK is inconsistent in how it handles uncommitted location fields:

http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/sdk_inconsistent_handling_of_uncommitted_location_fields

If you could figure out a way for a plugin to commit the location fields (make them permanent), you could make a lot of money, since there are a lot of users unhappy about that "feature" of LR.

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Henrik Eidem KurkaAuthor
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September 17, 2013

Thanks John.

This is really annoying. I don't recall having the same problems in LR4? If I recall correctly, in LR 4 I could change for example the Country name without losing the other location fields.

I tried to mess around the database yesterday (directly into the SQL tables) and was happy when I found a field that indicated if the location names were taken from "xmp" or "gps". Being an optimist, I updated all "gps" to "xmp", but sadly it didn't work. Instead all the "grey" location fields were gone. What I found is that even though they have a table to store location anmes and the mentioned indicator (gps/xmp), the location fields that is actually used by LR is stored as XMP data in another field in another database. So the update I did had no effect on the stored XMP. Sad

This can be little other than a bug in LR5 and perhaps earlier versions.

johnrellis
johnrellis
Legend
September 17, 2013

I see you posted a message in the official feedback forum -- good.  Adobe does read that forum and does pay attention to much of what is said there (though perhaps not as much as we would all like). 


Related posts you could vote on:

http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lightroom_improve_control_over_reverse_geocoded_location_metadata

http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/geotagging_and_committing

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