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October 14, 2024
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Lightroom doesn't perform address lookup for GPS metadata

  • October 14, 2024
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Issue: Lightroom doesn't perform address lookup for GPS metadata, leaving location, city, and country fields empty.

 

Lightroom Version: 8.0

OS and Version: Windows 11

 

Steps to Reproduce the Behavior:

  1. Import photos into Lightroom that contain GPS metadata.
  2. Open the photo's metadata panel.
  3. Notice that location, city, and country fields remain empty despite the GPS data being present.

 

Expected Result: Lightroom should automatically perform an address lookup based on the GPS metadata and populate the location, city, and country fields, as Lightroom Classic does.

 

Actual Result: Lightroom does not perform any address lookup, and the location, city, and country fields remain empty.

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Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
October 14, 2024

I cannot reproduce this. 

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Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Known Participant
October 15, 2024

Hi Rikk,

Thanks for trying to reproduce this! So are you saying that Lr is supposed to automatically fill in the Location information based on the photo's GPS metadata? Is there a way to manually trigger this? 

Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
October 15, 2024

There is no trigger. If the GPS information is valid and present, it should look like this immediately after import. Here is one of the test files I shot yesterday to test your report.



If you have a file with valid GPS data, it may fail. 

If you can share a file that you believe should function, can you share it with me so I can try it? 

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org