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P: Geotagging does not work well in IPTC fields

Community Beginner ,
Aug 21, 2012 Aug 21, 2012

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When I geotag photos in Map module the program fills the name of the place: Country, Province, City and sometimes even Sublocation. So far so good.However, when I switch to Library module the location fields in Metadata's IPTC are still blank. Or sometimes they even have data from a different photo!It only happens when only IPTC option is chosen in Metadata panel. If I choose "EXIF and IPTC" the problem is gone.I think this is a bug.I use LR 4.1 on Mac.

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Adobe Employee , Mar 22, 2017 Mar 22, 2017
This was fixed on Lightroom 5 or later.

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LEGEND ,
Aug 24, 2012 Aug 24, 2012

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Cannot reproduce it on Windows.

The IPTC view has two sets of location fields: Contact (photographer's address) and Image (location where photo was taken). Make sure you're not looking at the wrong one.

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Community Beginner ,
Aug 24, 2012 Aug 24, 2012

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Yes, I definitely look at right place. Besides, I asked the question at different forum and got the problem confirmed from other people. I don't know what OS they use though.

For reproducing the problem switch to IPTC only view (as you already did according to the screen shot), stay in Library module and mark a different photo that you know has different location. Does the location data changed or is it stuck to the previous photo as it does for me (and some others)?

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LEGEND ,
Aug 24, 2012 Aug 24, 2012

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and mark a different photo that you know has different location.


Yep, this helped.
Reproduced the bug.

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LEGEND ,
Jan 06, 2013 Jan 06, 2013

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The auto filled location info (through Map module, shown grayed) is not refreshed when selecting another photo in the Library module. Other fields are refreshed.

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Mar 22, 2017 Mar 22, 2017

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This was fixed on Lightroom 5 or later.

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