Comments on: Lightroom “GPS Proximity Search” Plugin http://regex.info/blog/2008-10-18/967 Not a photo blog. A personal blog with photos. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:03:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: seb http://regex.info/blog/2008-10-18/967#comment-35483 seb Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:41:16 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2008-10-18/967#comment-35483 Hi Jeffrey, Nice tool, indeed. I postet a entry on our (German) blog: http://gps-camera.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=109%3Aadobe-lightroom-umkreissuche-mit-jeffrey-friedls-plugin&catid=1%3Aaktuelle-nachrichten&Itemid=50&lang=de Keep me informed if you have new geotagging gadgets. Thanks! Seb Hi Jeffrey,

Nice tool, indeed. I postet a entry on our (German) blog:
http://gps-camera.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=109%3Aadobe-lightroom-umkreissuche-mit-jeffrey-friedls-plugin&catid=1%3Aaktuelle-nachrichten&Itemid=50&lang=de

Keep me informed if you have new geotagging gadgets. Thanks!
Seb

]]> By: Eric http://regex.info/blog/2008-10-18/967#comment-25550 Eric Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:28:18 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2008-10-18/967#comment-25550 Hello, I found the idea of the plugin really great!. how ever I am worried about one thing: Are the custom metadata written on the file or not? I am usually reluctant to write metadata to photo that are not really meaning full as they may interfere with other search in other software (for example here the bearing and direction might be mistaken with the bearing and direction of the image) Anyway great job thank you for that Best regards Eric <span class='jfriedl'>No, nothing is written to the image file (or any image sidecar). It's all kept in the Lighroom catalog. —Jeffrey</span> Hello,
I found the idea of the plugin really great!.
how ever I am worried about one thing: Are the custom metadata written on the file or not? I am usually reluctant to write metadata to photo that are not really meaning full as they may interfere with other search in other software (for example here the bearing and direction might be mistaken with the bearing and direction of the image)
Anyway great job thank you for that
Best regards
Eric

No, nothing is written to the image file (or any image sidecar). It’s all kept in the Lighroom catalog. —Jeffrey

]]> By: ElliR http://regex.info/blog/2008-10-18/967#comment-24825 ElliR Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:07:11 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2008-10-18/967#comment-24825 Help Jeffrey Have just updated to the .5 version of the Proximimity Search plug-in and now things do not work as they should. If you are not able to advise on the problem below perhaps you could advise whether or not it is possible to get back to either the .1 or .2 versions as I had no trouble with those. Following the selection of a number of geotagged images in LR, I then go to File > Plug-in Extras and select GPS Proximity search. This brings up a pop-up window titled ‘Info’ containing the text “+141.8 : At line 9075: Attempt to access property “data” that’s not declared in Info.lua”. Any clues please? Thanks <span class='jfriedl'>This was a bug I introduced yesterday, sorry. <b>.6</b> fixes it. —Jeffrey</span> Help Jeffrey

Have just updated to the .5 version of the Proximimity Search plug-in and now things do not work as they should. If you are not able to advise on the problem below perhaps you could advise whether or not it is possible to get back to either the .1 or .2 versions as I had no trouble with those.

Following the selection of a number of geotagged images in LR, I then go to File > Plug-in Extras and select GPS Proximity search. This brings up a pop-up window titled ‘Info’ containing the text “+141.8 : At line 9075: Attempt to access property “data” that’s not declared in Info.lua”.

Any clues please? Thanks

This was a bug I introduced yesterday, sorry. .6 fixes it. —Jeffrey

]]> By: ElliR http://regex.info/blog/2008-10-18/967#comment-23690 ElliR Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:33:33 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2008-10-18/967#comment-23690 Thanks once again for taking the time to reply - have a nice day - Elli Thanks once again for taking the time to reply – have a nice day – Elli

]]> By: ElliR http://regex.info/blog/2008-10-18/967#comment-23686 ElliR Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:56:32 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2008-10-18/967#comment-23686 Thanks for clearing that one up Jeffrey. I note that of this morning read on the Adobe LR Forum that 2.1 final release is going to be available later today. Will installing 2.1 recognise your plug-in as is or shall we have to wait for a plug-in update. I note from the plug-ins menu box that you intend updating prior to Nov 2. <span class='jfriedl'>The upgrade to 2.1 is seamless... plugins installed prior will be fine, so before/after makes no difference. —Jeffrey</span> Thanks for clearing that one up Jeffrey. I note that of this morning read on the Adobe LR Forum that 2.1 final release is going to be available later today. Will installing 2.1 recognise your plug-in as is or shall we have to wait for a plug-in update. I note from the plug-ins menu box that you intend updating prior to Nov 2.

The upgrade to 2.1 is seamless… plugins installed prior will be fine, so before/after makes no difference. —Jeffrey

]]> By: ElliR http://regex.info/blog/2008-10-18/967#comment-23675 ElliR Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:43:32 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2008-10-18/967#comment-23675 As an avid user of a GPS and do geotag a considerable number of my images, I am always interested to read about any additional functionality that can be brought into play. Now then, please forgive this perhaps senile question but make allowances that is is coming from a senile person, or at least one getting on it years. I have read your post and the instructions etc etc but I am still confused as to what exactly this plug-in is supposed to achieve. For instance - the word proximity is used but proximity to what? <span class='jfriedl'>The proximity to the "search epicenter", which you specify in the search-dialog that pops up when you invoke a search.</span> I tried this with a single image last night and the plug-in through up a response that I was something like 1km away from the target - but what was the target? I'm sorry to say that I'm at a complete loss as to best utilize this wonderful idea of yours and wonder if you'd care to explain it more in very simple terms. You might want to consider an email response. At the moment I am drifting along with the idea, I think, that the user should first place a 'pin' in Google maps of a target location - say Rome city centre. Then using your plug-in all geotagged images will be indicated with a proximity to that target. Would this be correct? Additionally, I may have happened upon a 'bug' in the plug-in. I have all my geotagged images contained within a Collection and, as is Lightrooms way, the first image in any folder is always highlighted so I then go to the menu and choose 'Deselect All'. When I now click on the first image in the Collection and run the plug-in, in the 'Images to Search' box it indicates all the images in my Library. There is no way to choose (and have indicated) that single image if it happens to be the first one in the Collection. The way round it I have found is to ALT click on the second and then the first image which then indicates 2 images in the 'Images to Search' box. <span class='jfriedl'>Since it makes little sense to "search" a single image, the plugin searches all images when one or no images are selected. If you want to limit your search to all in the collection, select them first (Ctrl-A or Cmd-A while in the collection). It would be a good feature for the plugin to offer an "all images in the current collection" choice, but alas, the plugin infrastructure does not provide that information. —Jeffrey</span> Windows XP Pro SP3 Thanks for your time and efforts in providing this plug-in and your 'services' to us Lightroom users - very much appreciated. Regards Elli As an avid user of a GPS and do geotag a considerable number of my images, I am always interested to read about any additional functionality that can be brought into play. Now then, please forgive this perhaps senile question but make allowances that is is coming from a senile person, or at least one getting on it years. I have read your post and the instructions etc etc but I am still confused as to what exactly this plug-in is supposed to achieve. For instance – the word proximity is used but proximity to what?

The proximity to the “search epicenter”, which you specify in the search-dialog that pops up when you invoke a search.

I tried this with a single image last night and the plug-in through up a response that I was something like 1km away from the target – but what was the target? I’m sorry to say that I’m at a complete loss as to best utilize this wonderful idea of yours and wonder if you’d care to explain it more in very simple terms. You might want to consider an email response.

At the moment I am drifting along with the idea, I think, that the user should first place a ‘pin’ in Google maps of a target location – say Rome city centre. Then using your plug-in all geotagged images will be indicated with a proximity to that target. Would this be correct?

Additionally, I may have happened upon a ‘bug’ in the plug-in. I have all my geotagged images contained within a Collection and, as is Lightrooms way, the first image in any folder is always highlighted so I then go to the menu and choose ‘Deselect All’. When I now click on the first image in the Collection and run the plug-in, in the ‘Images to Search’ box it indicates all the images in my Library. There is no way to choose (and have indicated) that single image if it happens to be the first one in the Collection. The way round it I have found is to ALT click on the second and then the first image which then indicates 2 images in the ‘Images to Search’ box.

Since it makes little sense to “search” a single image, the plugin searches all images when one or no images are selected. If you want to limit your search to all in the collection, select them first (Ctrl-A or Cmd-A while in the collection). It would be a good feature for the plugin to offer an “all images in the current collection” choice, but alas, the plugin infrastructure does not provide that information. —Jeffrey

Windows XP Pro SP3

Thanks for your time and efforts in providing this plug-in and your ‘services’ to us Lightroom users – very much appreciated.

Regards
Elli

]]> By: Bauckmeier Konrad http://regex.info/blog/2008-10-18/967#comment-23605 Bauckmeier Konrad Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:43:31 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2008-10-18/967#comment-23605 That was actually, what I was waiting for to appear in LR 2.0 Thank you so much for this addition!!! BTW: I use <a href="http://www.geosetter.de/en/index.html" rel="nofollow">Geosetter</a> for geotagging my images (sync between GPS-File and Images but also manual mode possible). It is not as easy as Downloader Pro, but it is free , very comfortable and it is able to tag RAW-Files too. That was actually, what I was waiting for to appear in LR 2.0
Thank you so much for this addition!!!

BTW: I use Geosetter for geotagging my images (sync between GPS-File and Images but also manual mode possible). It is not as easy as Downloader Pro, but it is free , very comfortable and it is able to tag RAW-Files too.

]]> By: Mike Alexander http://regex.info/blog/2008-10-18/967#comment-23557 Mike Alexander Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:08:41 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2008-10-18/967#comment-23557 Another great plug-in, thank you Jeffrey!!! It's unfortunate that LR doesn't (yet?) fully support geotagging, but I do have a suggestion for PC users (sorry Mac, although I've heard it works in Parallels). I use a program called <a href="http://www.breezesys.com/Downloader/" rel="nofollow">Downloader Pro</a> (from the makers of BreezeBrowser Pro) to copy my CF cards to my hard drive. If I have my GPS connected to the computer while I download, then DLPro will find the track logs and use the date/time to match photos to locations in the log, and write it into the EXIF. The new version released a few days ago will lookup the city/country names on geonames.org and add it to the IPTC data as well. LR takes it from there. In addition to geotagging, DLPro is also much much better at building directory structures and renaming files than LR's weak import options for file naming. Not affiliated with Breeze Systems, just a happy user. <span class='jfriedl'>FWIW, I now offer a plugin that does <a href='http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/gps/' rel="nofollow">Geoencoding within Lightroom</a> —Jeffrey</span> Another great plug-in, thank you Jeffrey!!!

It’s unfortunate that LR doesn’t (yet?) fully support geotagging, but I do have a suggestion for PC users (sorry Mac, although I’ve heard it works in Parallels). I use a program called Downloader Pro (from the makers of BreezeBrowser Pro) to copy my CF cards to my hard drive. If I have my GPS connected to the computer while I download, then DLPro will find the track logs and use the date/time to match photos to locations in the log, and write it into the EXIF. The new version released a few days ago will lookup the city/country names on geonames.org and add it to the IPTC data as well. LR takes it from there.

In addition to geotagging, DLPro is also much much better at building directory structures and renaming files than LR’s weak import options for file naming.

Not affiliated with Breeze Systems, just a happy user.

FWIW, I now offer a plugin that does Geoencoding within Lightroom —Jeffrey

]]> By: Gilles http://regex.info/blog/2008-10-18/967#comment-23534 Gilles Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:59:12 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2008-10-18/967#comment-23534 I agree completely with Jeffrey here, the fact that Lightroom doesn't support geotagging yet is frustrating, as it is also disappointing not to see serious email functionnalities in this software. This is beyond my understanding. BTW, thanks again for the good work, Jeffrey. I agree completely with Jeffrey here, the fact that Lightroom doesn’t support geotagging yet is frustrating, as it is also disappointing not to see serious email functionnalities in this software.
This is beyond my understanding. BTW, thanks again for the good work, Jeffrey.

]]> By: T.J. Powell http://regex.info/blog/2008-10-18/967#comment-23429 T.J. Powell Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:01:32 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2008-10-18/967#comment-23429 Very cool plugin. I have been fascinated with goecoding and I try to do it to all the photos I take. This will be a handy addition to the other great plugins you have written. Keep up the good work! Very cool plugin. I have been fascinated with goecoding and I try to do it to all the photos I take. This will be a handy addition to the other great plugins you have written. Keep up the good work!

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