P: Map view/module - Ability to geotag photos

[miked76040984]

I'm probably at the low end of the prosumer category when it comes to photography. I've been using Lightroom for a couple of years. I love the multiple platform feature on the new CC, but geotagging images has always been important for me (enough so that onboard GPS is a mandatory feature when I look for a camera). I had been adding locations to older images in what's now CC Classic. 

Are we going to get that ability in the new CC? 

Even more importantly, will the new AI-based search allow us to do things like pull pictures based on location? And, if so, will we be able to do things like define a radius? This was all possible when we had the maps panel, but seems to be challenging now.

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

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[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

I've fixed the thread marking. You couldn't change it as it came from the old Get Sat site instead of Sprinklr. It requires Admin access for that. 

[georged38521745]

For Lightroom Mobile not to have this is ridiculous. I’ve pretty much given up on Adobe with their subscription model and lousy support. 

[Victoria Bampton LR Queen]

Thanks for sorting that @Rikk 

[Jonas Astrup]

Thanks both of you 🙏

Fingers crossed this feature will be implemented soon. 

Jonas 

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Why is there still no way to see the place where a photo was shot, ideally on a map? 

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

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[FeedbackCommunityMember]

PLEASE add the ability to Geotag photos in Lightroom!  This is the one thing keeping me from moving to Lightroom from Lightroom Classic.  If I could just geotag a bunch of photos at the same time, it would be awesome.  Thank you.

[Victoria Bampton LR Queen]

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[photosam]

Lightroom is now looking very nice but... still no mapping functionality.

I cannot import a GPX trace and add to a batch of photos, and there is no way to view a map of my geotagged photo library. These features are preventing any move away from Lightroom Classic, and would dearly love to have my photos and edits synchronised across several devices which is only possible with new Lightroom.

[Antoine HLMN]

@samuel_jessop as a general remark, and seeing the recent updates on LR mobile, it seems like focus is more en the social and learning aspects of LR than on technological aspects. If you want to keep the advanced features provided by classic, I feel you'll need to stick with classic for a bit longer. But that's just my feeling, of course, and as there is no readmap, it'as about the best you can get 😉

[photosam]

@antoine_hlmn I think you're absolutely right. While I love using Lightroom Classic, I am concerned that eventually the two teams will be merged, and there is the risk of losing functionality along the way.

[KevAnderson]

@samuel_jessop you can use Adobe cloud from within Lightroom classic. Check out this article https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/lightroom-mobile-desktop-features.html

[Antoine HLMN]

It's another topic and it's a very intresting one. If you hear Adobe's reps and official communication, there are no plans for discontinuing Classic. However, it's a secret for no one that maintaining two similar softwares is economically not the best idea. And adobe is money oriented before being product oriented. This is only my opinion as user, but my feeling is that they'll be killing (actively or passively) one solution for another. My guess (feeling) is that you'll get less and less significant classic updates at the cost of social and cloud features on cloudy.

[jh77]

In Lightroom (not Classic) especially on iPadOS it should be possible to view more Details about the photos.

1)

In particular the full EXIF data/GPS Location (best on Map or even if it is present).

This is really too less as of now although there would be quite a lot of space left in the Info Panel at the right side. 

2)

Also in the Overview Metadata overlay you can only choose between Format OR Picture Info like ISO etc. but why not both? Format is top right, Picture Infos are at the bottom. This should be in general more detailed and customizable to show more at once. 
Example: Format top right, Rating or Flag Top left, Picture Info (ISO, Aperture etc) Bottom left others like Tag/Sync etc Bottom right. 
A little more like on PC version.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Thant would be so helpful. Also, i would like to be able to keyword in Lightroom mobile and have it sync back to the desktop. 

In addition, the ability to add a photo to move the photo to more than one album at a time.

But your suggestion for expanded information on the photo is a very good suggestion.

[mathieud65778067]

Hi Adobe team,

i've been using Lightroom CC for one year now, particularly on the ipad.

One of the few critical features which are missing is:

a MAP view of the photos, just like there is in the Photos app on the iPad or iPhone.

This is a map which you can scroll, zoom in, zoom out, see your pictures where they were taken, and click on a group of pictures in a specific place to look at these.

This feature is fantastic on the iPad's Photos. I don't see why it couldn't be as good in Lightroom.

With it however, do not forget that there will always be photos for which the geo-tagging location didn't work for the camera (for plenty of possible reasons), and the user will always need the ability to add the location manually afterwards through Lightroom (like it was possible in Elements).

All of this is a must-have for an app like Lightroom.

Many thanks for everything

Kind regards

[UlrichR]

I would like to avoid using Lightroom Classic or even an external tool to manually geotag photos. Therefore I would appreciate a geotagging feature in Lightroom CC. 

[Dave…]

Hi Michael, When I upload any image from photos to the adobe icloud I do not see the mapping?

Any ideas as to why not?

[Dave…]

Strange, today all of the location information is showing?

[Jschmittat]

Just adding my support for this request. 

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

Update: GPS field is now editable as of LrD 5.0. 

[kaim30386116]

When will maps / location data for the iOS version become available? I've been waiting for this for years now (probably like almost every other user).  The lack of this always makes me want to go back to Apple's photo app where it has been available since the beginning ... 

[welsh_aperture]

Any update on if this is going to be implimented?

[Dave.Flanagan]

The ecosystem for geotagging photos is currently broken:

• Camera manufacturers have developed their own apps that connect to some of their cameras, but they can be buggy and slow, especially for cameras that don't have Bluetooth for camera/app pairing.
• Mobile apps exist (for example, Geotag Photos Pro and GeoTagr), but they require additional steps in the import workflow and sometimes produce sidecar files to RAW files that Lightroom CC ignores when importing.

I suggest that geotag capturing is added as a function to Lightroom Mobile, taking advantage of the location information on our phones and eliminating the need for clunky first- or third-party tagging applications:

• Before going out to photograph, a user would open Lightroom Mobile on their phone and select "Start recording location info".
• There would be options for 1 hour/4 hours/8 hours/indefinite recording.
• In the background Lightroom Mobile would save time and location data to a location log file in the user's cloud.
• When photos are imported into Lightroom at any point in the future, if there is a match between the datetime stamp on the imported photo and a datetime stamp in the location log file, the photo is tagged with that GPS location.

In addition:

• The user would need to be reminded to make sure their camera's time matches their phone time.
• They would have the option to clear their location logs manually, or to automatically delete them every 30 days.
• They would be warned that logging GPS data could reduce their battery life.
• For simplicity, they would not have access to the location log file -- it would be invisible to the end user.

This approach would give users nearly all the convenience of the built-in phone camera apps for geotagging photos, but for any digital camera while the user is in the Lightroom ecosystem.