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).

[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...

[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...

[jean claudeh67623131]

I have the l;atest version on Lightroom. I have started to upload pictures with GPS coordinates. Some pictures show the riight coordinate and mos others do not. I checled the GPS coordinates listed in LR and they are correct. 

I have read a lot of posts with this problem but cannot find one with a solution.

I run LR on MacBook pro M1 Max.

TY

[johnrellis]

"I have started to upload pictures with GPS coordinates. Some pictures show the riight coordinate and mos others do not."

The other reports in this thread concern dragging photos to the map to set their coordinates. Your symptoms are different. Please upload a couple of the original problem photos to Dropbox, Google Drive, or similar, and post the sharing link here.

[flashoffroad]

I'm using Windows 11 lastest update.

This is the same bug that appeared way back. When I drag a photo to  the map the location pops 3" away from the intended point. I can then grab the location icon and move it to the place I want it.

[johnrellis]

The bug has never been fixed -- when either Windows Display Scaling is set larger than 100% or LR's Preferences > Interface > Font Size is set larger than 100% (small), dragging onto the map places the pin in the wrong spot.

Dragging the pin to the correct location works, as long as it represents just one photo. But another unfixed bug is that you can't drag a pin with more than one photo assigned to it.

Another workaround is to right-click the desired location on the map and do Add GPS Coordinates To Selected Photos.

[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...

[Pierre319555357dqz]

Bonjour, 

Je me permets de créé ce post car je rencontre un problème concernant la localisation GPS de mes photos. 

Je positionne manuellement les photos dans l'onglet "Cartes'. Le problème est que j'observe un décalage entre l'endroit où je souhaite positionner les photos sur la carte et le positionnement que le logiciel effectue. 

Ci-dessous une capture d'écran :

Merci d'avance pour votre aide à la résolution de ce décalage.

Pierre

[johnrellis]

Google translation: "GPS manual positioning of offset photos ... The problem is that I observe a discrepancy between where I want to position the photos on the map and the positioning that the software does."

This is a longstanding Windows bug on higher-resolution displays for which Adobe has never prioritized a fix. The simplest workaround is to right-click the desired location on the map and do Add GPS Coordinates To Selected Photos.

[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...

[KenSinclair48]

It may work for most people, but after 20+ years of using Lightroom Classic for PC, it has started happening to me.
This, again, is where Adobe have lost their way in caring for quality; instead in many cases, going for gimmicks.

I have lost total trust in Adobe for accuracy as I also have another major problem relating to retention of data, that Adobe are incapable of correcting!!

[gs359]

When I drag and drop an image thumbnail to the map in map module, the location ends up some way off the location I dropped. In display settings, the scale parameter is 125%. If I change this to 100% (resulting in tiny text) the dragged thumbnail ends up at the correct location on the map. If I change back to 125% so I can read the text, the location is again wrong. This seems to be a repeatable bug.

Using a Windows 10 enterprise system. LR classic 13.1

[johnrellis]

It's been a bug for many years, unfortunately. A workaround is to select the photo(s) in the filmstrip, right-click on the map, and do Add GPS Coordinates To Selected Photos.

[johnrellis]

Moderators, @Rikk Flohr: Photography, please merge with this bug:

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

[mikehughesc2]

Still a bug, Feb 2024.  Adobe, you are hopeless.

[Kev 2024]

Just found this one too, thanks for the workarounds mentioned in the forum, but Adobe need to resolve this.

[franck_ehret]

June 2024. still failing... shame 😑

[simonf98293565]

In MAP module I drag and drop photos to set their location. LRC allocates a position that is approximately 2 inches to the right and slightly below the position where I dropped the photo. This is a screen dependent position, not map zoom dependent.

[johnrellis]

This is an eight-year-old bug that Adobe has declined to fix. See here for workarounds:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-bugs/p-photo-placed-in-wrong-spot-on-map/idc-p/1266...

[johnrellis]

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

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-bugs/p-photo-placed-in-wrong-spot-on-map/idc-p/1266...

[flashtastic1500]

March 2025 and still a bug. Well done Adobe for caring about the details.

I followed the advice regarding setting the scaling etc and now no map shows in Map module. Workaround has created another issue in my case.

Map module used to be really helpful but it's taking up space and achieving nothing now.

Maybe Adobe will put some of the price increase into fixing some very old bugs?

[johnrellis]

@flashtastic1500: "I followed the advice regarding setting the scaling etc and now no map shows in Map module."

You may now be tripping over another long-standing bug caused by exiting LR while in the Map module. Workaround: Switch to Library, exit LR, start LR, go to Map module.

If changing the font size and display scaling results in a hard-to-read user interface, see the second workaround here, which is easy to use:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-bugs/p-photo-placed-in-wrong-spot-on-map/idc-p/1266...

[ArchieTP]

Good point.  I'm on the photography package and have just received an email notification that costs are increasing by 50%.  That's quite a bit more than inflation and my income rises.  Scandalous.  Yes as this thread highlights repeatedly, a long standing error has had no attention whatsoever.

[flashtastic1500]

For the price increase I changed my billing to a one-off yearly (was on monthly) to avoid the increase. You do have to shed out for the whole year (or the remainder there of) but you do save the £50 increase. I'm sure we will all be caught next time but at least I've delayed the inevitable.

Back on topic. I used to use the map module often and have only recently stated using it again. It's only now that I've encountered this unaddressed bug. I noticed an old image that I geotagged years ago that seemed to have moved to a new place. They don't move far but far enough to render the tagging useless. In this case the plot was moved to a small island near where it should have been (beside a lake).