Comments on: Jeffrey’s “Geoencoding Support” Plugin for Lightroom http://regex.info/blog Not a photo blog. A personal blog with photos. Wed, 23 May 2012 20:38:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: GOC http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/gps#comment-46038 GOC Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:12:11 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/gps/#comment-46038 Thank you for doing something to your plug-in! I opened up the latest incarnation (.175) and it asked to update my geo data. Previously the photos geo-encoded with your plug-in had not appeared in Lightroom 4's Map module, possibly because of some oversight on my part. After a couple of minutes work 7,541 photos were visible on the map! That was 5,000 more than had been before. I could get your plug-in ones to appear by copying from the jf geocoding support area of the Metadata to the GPS area via Google maps, but doing that 5,000 times was not an option. So, once again, Thank You Very Much!!! Thank you for doing something to your plug-in! I opened up the latest incarnation (.175) and it asked to update my geo data. Previously the photos geo-encoded with your plug-in had not appeared in Lightroom 4′s Map module, possibly because of some oversight on my part. After a couple of minutes work 7,541 photos were visible on the map! That was 5,000 more than had been before.
I could get your plug-in ones to appear by copying from the jf geocoding support area of the Metadata to the GPS area via Google maps, but doing that 5,000 times was not an option. So, once again, Thank You Very Much!!!

]]> By: rubin110 http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/gps#comment-45978 rubin110 Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:58:16 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/gps/#comment-45978 LR 4 under Windows 7 64bit, Geoencoding plugin 20120330.174. For some reason Import location from active image button is always disabled, even when the active image has a geolocation. Could this be because I haven't provided any altitude information? Thanks. <span class='jfriedl'>No, altitude is imported if available, but isn't required. Are you sure the <i>most-selected</i> image has a geoencoded location? If it is, then please <a href='http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/faq#log' rel="nofollow">send a log</a>, though make sure you're using the latest version, because I just added some extra debug logging in this area. —Jeffrey</span> LR 4 under Windows 7 64bit, Geoencoding plugin 20120330.174. For some reason Import location from active image button is always disabled, even when the active image has a geolocation. Could this be because I haven’t provided any altitude information? Thanks.

No, altitude is imported if available, but isn’t required. Are you sure the most-selected image has a geoencoded location? If it is, then please send a log, though make sure you’re using the latest version, because I just added some extra debug logging in this area. —Jeffrey

]]> By: ChrisN http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/gps#comment-45928 ChrisN Fri, 06 Apr 2012 06:43:11 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/gps/#comment-45928 I'm still running Lightroom 1, never liked the layout of 2 or 3 for adding/checking metadata, would this plugin work with it? <span class='jfriedl'>No. —Jeffrey</span> I’m still running Lightroom 1, never liked the layout of 2 or 3 for adding/checking metadata, would this plugin work with it?

No. —Jeffrey

]]> By: Thomas Kemnitz http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/gps#comment-45892 Thomas Kemnitz Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:33:47 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/gps/#comment-45892 Hi Jefrey, with the plugin's »Pinpoint in Google Earth« the range ist 100. For me its better >300. So, can I enywhere set the value? Or edit the .lua file? Thanks and Regards Thomas <span class='jfriedl'>The plugin just tells Google Earth the location... anything about the default view comes from Google Earth. Perhaps it's a setting you can adjust? —Jeffrey</span> Hi Jefrey,
with the plugin’s »Pinpoint in Google Earth« the range ist 100. For me its better >300. So, can I enywhere set the value? Or edit the .lua file? Thanks and Regards Thomas

The plugin just tells Google Earth the location… anything about the default view comes from Google Earth. Perhaps it’s a setting you can adjust? —Jeffrey

]]> By: Terry Straehley http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/gps#comment-45674 Terry Straehley Fri, 16 Mar 2012 22:20:35 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/gps/#comment-45674 I am now using your geoencoding plug in (v 173) with Lightroom 4. With previous versons there was a four or five step process to geoencode pictures (encode, read metadata, flush, write metadata, delete .xmp file) . Am I correct in that's now a one or two step process (encode, delete .xmp) , and that the r/w metadata steps are no longer necessary? Thank you for your plug-in. I had a problem with the software that came with my traker in Vietnam and was able to use your plug in to save the day. I also use it when I take GPS with GPS Stone with my iPhone. <span class='jfriedl'>Now it's just a 1-step process (encode). XMP now plays no part in it one way or the other. —Jeffrey</span> I am now using your geoencoding plug in (v 173) with Lightroom 4. With previous versons there was a four or five step process to geoencode pictures (encode, read metadata, flush, write metadata, delete .xmp file) . Am I correct in that’s now a one or two step process (encode, delete .xmp) , and that the r/w metadata steps are no longer necessary? Thank you for your plug-in. I had a problem with the software that came with my traker in Vietnam and was able to use your plug in to save the day. I also use it when I take GPS with GPS Stone with my iPhone.

Now it’s just a 1-step process (encode). XMP now plays no part in it one way or the other. —Jeffrey

]]> By: Alexander Czernay http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/gps#comment-45642 Alexander Czernay Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:58:59 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/gps/#comment-45642 Hi Jeffrey, I've been using your GPS-Encoder for quite some time in conjunction with a GPS tracker. That was a feasible solution. Nowadays I switched to using my iPhone with Google Latitude for GPS tracking. Thus I would love to have a plugin that just accesses my Latitude account via its API, fetches GPS data as available and attaches that to my photos. What do you think – is that possible? Would love to see that as an addition to your collection. ;) Cheers, Alexander <span class='jfriedl'>It's a good idea, but not one I can do soon, sorry... my "todo" list is very long. —Jeffrey</span> Hi Jeffrey,

I’ve been using your GPS-Encoder for quite some time in conjunction with a GPS tracker. That was a feasible solution. Nowadays I switched to using my iPhone with Google Latitude for GPS tracking. Thus I would love to have a plugin that just accesses my Latitude account via its API, fetches GPS data as available and attaches that to my photos.

What do you think – is that possible? Would love to see that as an addition to your collection. ;)

Cheers,
Alexander

It’s a good idea, but not one I can do soon, sorry… my “todo” list is very long. —Jeffrey

]]> By: Steve http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/gps#comment-45632 Steve Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:06:01 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/gps/#comment-45632 Having geo-encoded my photos in LR3 using this plugin I have noticed that when I export to jpg files and use the shadow gps injector you seem to also be setting the xmp field GPSDateTime - is that correct? My problem is that having transfered a number of photos to a tablet (Android) - some with and some without GPS data, the tablet seems to sort the photos by this GPS time in preference to the Exif datetime taken and so the photos are out of order. I wondered if there was some way to either not set the GPSdateTime field or have it set to the local time taken as an option? Thoughts? <span class='jfriedl'>That's really a bug in your tablet photo-viewing app... you should ask them to fix it. In the mean time, perhaps you can strip the troublesome fields with <a href='http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/metadata-wrangler/' rel="nofollow">my Metadata Wrangler plugin</a> —Jeffrey</span> Having geo-encoded my photos in LR3 using this plugin I have noticed that when I export to jpg files and use the shadow gps injector you seem to also be setting the xmp field GPSDateTime – is that correct? My problem is that having transfered a number of photos to a tablet (Android) – some with and some without GPS data, the tablet seems to sort the photos by this GPS time in preference to the Exif datetime taken and so the photos are out of order. I wondered if there was some way to either not set the GPSdateTime field or have it set to the local time taken as an option? Thoughts?

That’s really a bug in your tablet photo-viewing app… you should ask them to fix it. In the mean time, perhaps you can strip the troublesome fields with my Metadata Wrangler plugin —Jeffrey

]]> By: Alain http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/gps#comment-45626 Alain Tue, 13 Mar 2012 07:43:39 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/gps/#comment-45626 172 works fine, thanks 172 works fine, thanks

]]> By: Alain http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/gps#comment-45615 Alain Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:48:19 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/gps/#comment-45615 Updated to LR 4, updated and registered the plugin. Despite new Maps module in LR 4 the usability of the plugin is much better but I have a problem. I load a gpx file from my last trip to Argentina, set time to UTC -3, the plugin displays "Selected tracklog has 599 datapoints, running from Thu, Feb 23, 20123:51PM to 5:31PM", the picture I want to tag is taken at 17:05:06 but the plugin tells me "Tracklog misses selected images (by 4 hours: check the timezone setting?). Tried several other pictures and tracks unsuccesssfully. <span class='jfriedl'>I just pushed version <b>.172</b> that's a bit more rigorous in how it handles timezone issues... please give it a try, and if it's still not working correctly, <a href='http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/faq#log' rel="nofollow">send a log</a> with a description of what's going on. —Jeffrey</span> Updated to LR 4, updated and registered the plugin. Despite new Maps module in LR 4 the usability of the plugin is much better but I have a problem.
I load a gpx file from my last trip to Argentina, set time to UTC -3, the plugin displays “Selected tracklog has 599 datapoints, running from Thu, Feb 23, 20123:51PM to 5:31PM”, the picture I want to tag is taken at 17:05:06 but the plugin tells me “Tracklog misses selected images (by 4 hours: check the timezone setting?). Tried several other pictures and tracks unsuccesssfully.

I just pushed version .172 that’s a bit more rigorous in how it handles timezone issues… please give it a try, and if it’s still not working correctly, send a log with a description of what’s going on. —Jeffrey

]]> By: scotta http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/gps#comment-45596 scotta Sun, 11 Mar 2012 02:32:13 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/gps/#comment-45596 I upgraded from LR3.6 to LR4 a couple of days ago. I have a problem; apart from a few images the GPS location is not appearing in LR4 Map. (even after giving it lots of time) I am not sure I consistantly did the write back the data (in LR3.x using the plug in). Would this be the cause of the issue. Should I reopen the catalogue in 3.6 and do a writeback on all images? Then open in LR4? <div class='jfriedl'><p>No, the writeback thing was a kludge. Maybe you did a writeback but hadn't re-read the metadata back into Lightroom? This is a dangerous area because if you "Metadata > Read Metadata From File" at the wrong time you can end up destroying all your Lightroom changes.</p><p>To test, pick a photo you believe is geoencoded and make a virtual copy, then with the copy do a "Read Metadata From File" to see whether the location is added. If so, your data had been in the file but not in Lightroom. If so, go back to the original and do a "Metadata > Save Metadata To File" followed by a "Metadata > Read Metadata From File", and if the location data comes in, the solution for all your images is to do the save followed by the write.</p><p>It would be good, first, to check in Lr3 to see whether the shadow data is there... if it had been but got lost during migration to Lr4, that would be a bug in my system that needs to be addressed, and I'd ask for a zipped copy of you lrcat file to test with. —Jeffrey</p></div> I upgraded from LR3.6 to LR4 a couple of days ago. I have a problem; apart from a few images the GPS location is not appearing in LR4 Map. (even after giving it lots of time)

I am not sure I consistantly did the write back the data (in LR3.x using the plug in). Would this be the cause of the issue. Should I reopen the catalogue in 3.6 and do a writeback on all images? Then open in LR4?

No, the writeback thing was a kludge. Maybe you did a writeback but hadn’t re-read the metadata back into Lightroom? This is a dangerous area because if you “Metadata > Read Metadata From File” at the wrong time you can end up destroying all your Lightroom changes.

To test, pick a photo you believe is geoencoded and make a virtual copy, then with the copy do a “Read Metadata From File” to see whether the location is added. If so, your data had been in the file but not in Lightroom. If so, go back to the original and do a “Metadata > Save Metadata To File” followed by a “Metadata > Read Metadata From File”, and if the location data comes in, the solution for all your images is to do the save followed by the write.

It would be good, first, to check in Lr3 to see whether the shadow data is there… if it had been but got lost during migration to Lr4, that would be a bug in my system that needs to be addressed, and I’d ask for a zipped copy of you lrcat file to test with. —Jeffrey

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