{"id":667,"date":"2007-12-22T11:57:27","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T02:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-12-22\/667"},"modified":"2007-12-22T11:57:27","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T02:57:27","slug":"accessing-yahoo-maps-from-adobe-lightroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-12-22\/667","title":{"rendered":"Accessing Yahoo! Maps from Adobe Lightroom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

When viewing a geoencoded photo – one where the location's\nlatitude and longitude are encoded in the metadata – in Lightroom,\nits coordinates are displayed in the metadata panel as shown below:<\/p>\n\n

GPS Coordinates in Lightroom's Metadata Viewer<\/span><\/div>\n\n

(Well, it shows up if you're using a metadata<\/span>-panel view that includes\nthe coordinates among the items to be shown, such as “all”, but you can\nalso use my Lightroom\nMetadata Viewer Preset Builder<\/a> to build a customized<\/span> metadata-panel\nview.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clicking on the little arrow to the right of the coordinates brings up\nyour web browser, with the location showing in Google Maps. In the case<\/span> of\nthe example above, it brings up this\npage at Google<\/a>, where you can see that the location is Osaka Castle\nPark, Osaka Japan, from this photoshoot<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Google Maps is a wonderful service that I and<\/span> many have enjoyed for\nyears, which is why I include<\/span> not only this kind of link to Google Maps in\nmy online\nexif viewer<\/a> for appropriate images, but also an embedded Google Maps\npane. You can see\nit in action here<\/a>, showing the data for image used in the screenshot\nabove. Most photos that I post<\/span> are geoencoded, and you can get the same\nexif-viewer page by following the “map & image data” link under most\nphotos.<\/p>\n\n

Anyway, the point of this post is that I just<\/span> found\nout<\/a> that if you hold down the ALT key (PC) or Option key (Mac) while\nclicking, it'll bring up the location in Yahoo! Maps<\/b> instead. This\nis most excellent!<\/p>\n\n

Google Maps is generally excellent, but there are times when Google Maps are a bit<\/span>\nwonky<\/a>, and sometimes they're just downright freaky<\/a> compared\nto Yahoo! Maps.<\/p>\n\n

The location of this map is not one of them, because the US version of\nYahoo! Maps has only low-resolution data for Japan (Osaka\nPark in Yahoo! Maps<\/a>). However, for many locations on Earth, Yahoo! Maps\nis at least comparable (but different, which is good), or better, so it's\ngreat having two views. As I mention<\/span> at the bottom of this post<\/a>, Google Maps\ndoesn't even mark Mexico City, one of the world's largest cities, but\nYahoo! Maps has very nice high-resolution satellite imagery.<\/p>\n\n

I was really tickled to find out about the Yahoo!-Maps option in Lightroom, so I wanted<\/span> to share it.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When viewing a geoencoded photo – one where the location's latitude and longitude are encoded in the metadata – in Lightroom, its coordinates are displayed in the metadata panel as shown below:<\/p>

(Well, it shows up if you're using a metadata-panel view that includes the coordinates among the items to be shown, such as \"all\", but you can also use my Lightroom Metadata Viewer Preset Builder to build a customized metadata-panel view.)<\/p>

Clicking on the little arrow to the right of the coordinates brings up your web browser, with the location showing in Google Maps. In the case of the [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}