Skip to main content
PetrNEX
PetrNEX
Participant
January 15, 2023
Question

Address Lookup on Lightroom 12.1

  • January 15, 2023
  • 1 reply
  • 1360 views

None of my images are receiving the gray suggested IPTC locations.

 

- I have latest version of Lightroom Classic 12.1 on macOS 12.6 Monterrey

- in the catalog setting, the checkbox for Look-up city and country is checked

- in the identity plate the Address lookup is not paused

 

Still I have not received any location suggestion for months, even if the photos do have GPS info embedded. 

 

I add ISO Country and Country name by Import preset, but I expect the State, City and Sublocation to be proposed by Lightroom based on GPS info.

 

What can I do to fix it? Thanks

 

This topic has been closed for replies.

1 reply

F. McLion
Community Expert
F. McLionCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 15, 2023

Did you try NOT adding ISO country during import?

--- Got your issue resolved? Please label the response as 'Correct Answer' to help your fellow community members find a solution to similar problems. ---
    PetrNEX
    PetrNEXAuthor
    Participant
    January 15, 2023

    I tried now, thank you for the suggestion. It indeed worked. So no location data may be added manually in order to make the automatical suggestion work. 

    Anyway, once the ISO code is manualy confirmed (I change the gray ISO to white by typing it and pressing enter) all the other suggested location data disappear and are again considered as unknown. This applies not only to ISO but also the other location data (Region, State, City, Sublocation) = once one is updated, the other disappear. The desired result would be that the other data remain with the suggested grey values until either manually changed to a different value or deleted.

    Thank F.McLion for your time to reply. 

    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    January 16, 2023

    "...once the ISO code is manualy confirmed (I change the gray ISO to white by typing it and pressing enter) all the other suggested location data disappear and are again considered as unknown. This applies not only to ISO but also the other location data (Region, State, City, Sublocation) = once one is updated, the other disappear."

     

    This is a bug that was introduced in LR 11 and Adobe hasn't prioritized to fix (they haven't even acknowledged it's a bug). 

     

    When the address suggestions were first introduced in LR 4, editing individual location fields worked the way they currently do, and lots of users complained:

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-ideas/lightroom-classic-improve-control-over-reverse-geocoded-location-metadata/idi-p/12249242

     

    So after many years, Adobe fixed this, letting you change one field, e.g. ISO, without losing the others.

     

    But then LR 11 broke the fix, and LR went back to behaving the way it originally did in LR 4:

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-bugs/p-changed-behaviour-after-any-location-field-state-country-city-is-edited-from-automatic-value/idi-p/13194032

     

    Adobe hasn't acknowledged this is a bug.  The bug report has just two votes. Be sure to add your constructive opinion to the bug report and click Vote in the upper-right corner.

     

    There are two possible workarounds:

     

    - Before changing ISO, "commit" each location field by clicking its label (Sublocation, City, State, ...) and selecting the current value.  That will change the values from grey italic to white.

     

    - Use the free Commit Locations command of the Any Tag plugin to "commit" the location fields of many photos at once, changing the location-field values from grey italic to white.

     

      Terms & ConditionsAccessibility statement
      Using the community Terms of use Privacy Cookie preferences Do not sell or share my personal information ad choicesAdChoices