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Blue Baron II
Blue Baron II
Inspiring
May 28, 2024
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Lightroom Map Module Markers

  • May 28, 2024
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I have Lightroom Classic 13.3 on Windows 10.  I have unlocked the markers, but I still cannot move them manually.  If I try to move them, the whole map moves.

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There are three videos with the exact same coordinates.  I don't know why, but the coordinates that my phone put on them puts them in the middle of the Irish Sea.  I have tried selecting just one, but as soon as I click on the marker, Lightroom selects all three.  I can seperate them by entering arbitrary coordinates manually.  The snaping problem, I figured out, was caused when I moved one marker, LR would snap everyting that was selected to the same marker.  I did not realize, at the time, that more than one video was selected.


If you want to move one of the three, and not the others, you don't click on the marker. In the filmstrip below the map select the desired file by clicking on it and then move it onto the map by drag and drop from the filmstrip to the map.

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johnrellis
johnrellis
Brainiac
May 29, 2024

If there are two or more photos assigned to a marker, then you can't move it. Adobe declared this long-standing behavior "as designed":

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-ideas/p-can-t-drag-a-pin-assigned-to-two-or-more-photos-in-the-map-module/idi-p/12925039

 

The rationale for that design is known only to them.

 

In LR 13.3, I'm able to move a map marker with one assigned photo, on both Mac and Windows. Are you?

 

Blue Baron II
Blue Baron IIAuthor
Inspiring
May 29, 2024

I have tried manualy entering coordinates to seperate them.  That works until I move a couple of them.  Then Lightroom will sometimes snap them together even thought they should be miles apart.  Right now the map module is so messed up, it is hard to test anything.  Sometimes it won't even show a map and says it can't load Google maps.  I will probaly have to find the correct coordinates of where the photos should be and manualy enter those.

johnrellis
johnrellis
Brainiac
May 29, 2024

If you want to move one of the three, and not the others, you don't click on the marker. In the filmstrip below the map select the desired file by clicking on it and then move it onto the map by drag and drop from the filmstrip to the map.


"I have tried selecting just one, but as soon as I click on the marker, Lightroom selects all three. "

 

If they have different coordinates, you can usually distinguish them by zooming way in (and then if necessaryt, sometimes zooning out one or two steps). Use the zoom slider in the toolbar to make that more precise.

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