P: Photo placed in wrong spot on map

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

The new Lightroom version has a major bug in the map module!When you try to position a photo somewhere on the map Lightroom 6.8 assigns a wrong position (near the spot).

[Jim 185]

Thanks Victoria
Yes LrC ver 10.3  (duh!!)

OS  Win 20H2 Build 19042 1052

[Victoria Bampton LR Queen]

Thanks @jim_robertson_7046865 hopefully another Windows user can see if they can reproduce it too

[tmickow]

Sounds like this oldie that I do not believe has ever been fixed - 

Lightroom Classic: Mapping errors (Windows 10)

The easy workaround is to right-click on the map and choose "Add GPS Coordinates to Selected Photos" rather than dragging & dropping.

[Jim 185]

Thanks Tom. That worked.

I thought it was something that had come up before, but my (lousy) search didn't bring it up.

I never had a problem until this last update - strange, but at least I can now accurately place the images.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Earlier this week, I was trying to drag some photos, for which I don’t have GPS coordinates, onto the map in Lightroom Classic 10.3, a task that I’ve done properly many times before but in older versions of LR. But nothing happens. I had also taken a couple of pictures with my iPhone, and they appeared properly on the map. I was even able to copy and paste the coordinates of one of these images onto the GPS field in the map module, and this worked. But dragging and dropping onto the map didn’t work. Neither did right-clicking where I wanted the photos to drop and selecting Add GPS to selected photos. The only way I was able to map the images was in a tedious way by typing in coordinates into the GPS field in the map module, then correcting them as needed until the map showed my best estimate of where I was when I took each shot.

After submitting this problem to Kelby One, it was suggested I go back to LR 10.2. So I did this. I was able to map images using the right-click method but not the drag-and-drop one. Will Adobe be able to correct this problem in a later release of Lightroom?

[CumberLinda]

Dragging and dropping images without GPS onto the Map works for me in 10.3, though it did take about 30 seconds for the 370+ photos to show up in the count on the map. I am using 10.3 on a Mac with Mojave. If rebooting or waiting longer doesn't help you, maybe the Lightroom preferences need to be reset.

[Victoria Bampton LR Queen]

Could be related to this one: https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/lightroom-classic/lightroom-classic-mapping-errors-wind...

[Bluefoot]

When I drag thumbnails from the filmstrip to the map, Lightroom places the pin to the right and down. On my 4K monitor that's about one inch right, a quarter inch down. It takes me a few hit-and-misses to get the pin placed correctly. When I copy the GPS coordinates from an image's metadata and use these in Google Maps, this shows up in the same place as the Map module's pin.
I run LR Classic CC latest version 10.4 on Windows 10 Pro latest version, Nvidia Geforce Studio driver latest version, and I use a wired mouse that functions fine.

Any suggestions for overcoming this issue, other than the trusted hit-and-miss work-around?

[johnrellis]

This is a longstanding bug in LR Windows:

https://feedback-readonly.photoshop.com/conversations/lightroom-classic/lightroom-classic-mapping-er... 

See the Accepted Solution in that thread for two workarounds.

When that bug report gets copied into the new consolidated forum, your report should get merged into it. If Adobe ever fixes the bug (unlikely), you'd get notified.

[Babar_e]

I have the last version of lightroom classic as of spetember 2021.

I was looking at the map of my photos when I realized some photos were not assigned at the right location so I started to move them. But the more I did the more there were photos that were assigned stupid location. I was only moving photos that were single (not clustered with other nearby photos so no error on that point). And I remebered for someof them that the location they had befor was ok. Finally I started to find photos on the map that did not even have GPS coodinates! They were randomly placed on the map. Thats when I realized that lightroom do not respect the cooordinates!!! So I opened 3 different other software using different metadata api and all of them showed the photos in the correct location. I lightroom the error ranges from a few meters to several thousand kilometers. (and it is not a question of cluster and zoom level). So this module is unasable for me, but also I regret having trust it since correctly placed photos were moved by trusting lightroom.

This bug really needs to be corrected.

[RRFfm]

when trying to manually position a photo on the map, the photo is not located at the point I dragged it to, but further to the right and further down. The displacement is always constant, measured in mm on my screen, no matter what resolution the underlying map is in.

[tmickow]

@RRFfm - That's a long standing problem on high res/high DPI monitors.  The work around is to right-click on the map location and choose "Add GPS Coordinates to Selected Photos" instead of using drag and drop.

[RRFfm]

wow, it works, thanks for the quick help!

[johnrellis]

Moderators, @Rikk Flohr: Photography, please merge this with the previously existing Bug (29 votes, which didn't initially get copied over):

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-bugs/lightroom-classic-photo-placed-in-wrong-spot-o... 

[tompagenet]

This is still not fixed. Having the font scaling in Lightroom (latest version - 11.0.1) different from the system value seems to be (one of the) cause(s). Is there anything I can do to help with getting this fixed. The workarounds work, but one of them makes the font scaling feature in Lightroom pointless, and the other makes it slower to put photos on the map.

[raldo]

I just upgraded to 11.0.1 . Still not fixed. Ludicrous.

[Dave085]

Up until a couple of weeks ago the GPS feature worked really well. Now when I try and adjust the GPS location (or create one for a photo that does not have this already) it drops the GPS pin in a slightly different location to where I click on screen. For example if I try and drop the GPS pin on my house it will instead drop it about 1-2 streets away. Any ideas?

[johnrellis]

[Updated my answer, from the old feedback forum]

This bug has been outstanding for many years.  Workarounds:

1. Set Preferences > Interface > Font Size to Automatic and the Windows Display Settings > Scale And Layout to 100%.   Dragging photos to the map and the Develop eye dropper then become accurate for most people. But if the fonts are now too small, adjust the Windows Display Settings scaling, not the font size in LR.  (That works for some but not all people.)

2. Instead of dragging to the map, right-click the map location and do Add GPS Coordinates To Selected Photos. That should place the photo accurately.  Dragging the map pin also works accurately for most people.

[johnrellis]

Moderators, @Rikk Flohr: Photography, please merge with the existing bug:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-bugs/p-photo-placed-in-wrong-spot-on-map/idi-p/1225...

[nick912912]

When I move photos to a spot on the map in the map module in LRC the little shield always appears a couple of cm to the NW of the intended location. Slightly irritating, an anyone help. I am using windows. N

[GoldingD]

Difference in cm? You are asking too much from GPS

https://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/performance/accuracy/

[johnrellis]

"the little shield always appears a couple of cm to the NW of the intended location."

I assume you mean centimeters on your display, not centimeters of actual GPS coordinates. This is a longstanding bug in LR on Windows that Adobe has not fixed.  See this post for easy workarounds:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-bugs/p-photo-placed-in-wrong-spot-on-map/idc-p/1276... 

[peternl]

Item 2 in the the above post of johnrellis is an easy and perfect workaround.
And it's easier and more reliable than the method 1.
In LR Classic 11.5 the bug is still present. 

[johnrellis]

Moderators, @Rikk Flohr: Photography, please merge with the existing Bug:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-bugs/p-photo-placed-in-wrong-spot-on-map/idi-p/1225...

[johnrellis]

Moderators, @Rikk Flohr: Photography, please merge with the existing Bug:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-bugs/p-photo-placed-in-wrong-spot-on-map/idi-p/1225...