Manually adding geotags in LR Classic 7.5 hardly works anymore

[joopvde]

I have a DSLR camera Sony A77 Mk II. It doesn't support GPS. Therefore I need to add the tags manually in LR maps mode. For 2 years this worked fine, but returning from my vacation with 700 photos, August 2018, it becomes ever more difficult to place the geotags on the map. For most (raw) photos I have to click about 5 times before it "catches", sometimes even 10 times. Now I have some tags that won't be placed at all.

I tried all 3 types of adding geotags: dragging photo(s) to a location, right click and select "Add GPS coordinates to selected photos", as well as control-click on a location when a photo or photos are selected. My OS is Windows 10, I do my Windows updates always (automatically), also for LR.

This is very annoying, I managed to tag 300 photos so far, but I still have 400 to go.

Any ideas how to remedy this? Thanks!

[johnrellis · Accepted solution]

A number of people have reported problems with this -- see this bug report in the official Adobe feedback forum: Manually adding geotags in LR Classic 7.5 hardly works anymore . Please add details of your issue and copy/paste the first ten lines of the menu command Help > System Info. Be sure to click Me Too and Follow in the upper-right corner. This will make it a little more likely Adobe will prioritize a fix.

[tepe46]

I have had the same problen since the last update. Concerns all my cameras and all picture formats I have: dng (converted from Sony or

Canon RAW files) and JPG.

Usually I use Sports Tracker with my phone and attach the data in LR. That works still fine, sometimes however I use LR Map module

manually to add GPS-data, (or correct the sometimes inaccurate Sports Tracker data), and that works just so badly as joopvde said.

By the way, what an whewre is "official Adobe feedback forum"?

[johnrellis]

What and where is "official Adobe feedback forum"?

The feedback forum is where Adobe wants all product feedback posted -- bugs, feature requests, etc.  See this FAQ from the top of the Overview page of this forum for details: Which forum should I post to? (Feedback vs Forums) . Adobe product developers actively monitor and participate in the feedback forum but are rarely seen here, which is primarily a user-to-user forum with some low-level Adobe technical support.

Here is the correct link for the bug report on this thread's problem: Lightroom Classic: Placing photos on Map module erratic and slow since update LR Classic CC 7.5 (Win...

[joopvde]

Thanks johnrellis for pointing me to the Adobe feedback forum. I will grant you the correct answer, although your link didn't help to find the right thread on the feedback forum (it is pointing to this thread itself...). I followed your advise to "Me too", follow the thread etc, and included my system info.

I don't consider the issue solved though. In the feedback forum there is no real solution. The only workable way seems to be to downgrade to LR 7.4, which I will do if this is not fixed within days.

[johnrellis]

Sorry about the wrong link. The issue is definitely not solved, but Adobe has acknowledged it, which is a significant step.  New versions get released every 8 weeks on average, and Adobe almost never issues "emergency" releases except in the most severe circumstances. So you might consider rolling back if this is seriously affecting your workflow. 

Also, a lot of people use the Geoencoding Support plugin -- the author generally supports his plugins much better than Adobe supports LR.

[joopvde]

Thanks John for suggesting the Geoencoding Support plugin! I was wondering if there wouldn't be some app adding geotags to photos from a map (e.g. on Google Earth). This app promises to do just that, even from inside LR. I will try it if Adobe will not fix the issue in the next upgrade. For manually pinpointing locations the plugin does seem to be a little less direct than the standard LR map functionality.

[johnrellis]

On Windows, Geosetter is pretty popular (and free): https://www.geosetter.de/en/main-en/