Posted by Scott Bacon on February 28, 2008 at 9:40 PM
Last week, Jeff Barnes released a Beta version of a Geotag Lightroom Plugin. It is definitely at a Beta stage, but it is AWESOME to see someone working on this!!
I got it to work pretty easily with a few .cr2 files from my Canon 30D and .gpx files output from Garmin Mapsource. I did not get it to work with DNG files. I think that's because the plugin works with the sidecar files. Before running the plugin, you need to write metadata to a file (under the Metadata menu item in LR). Next, select your photos and run the plugin, which updates the metadata sidecar file. Lastly, select the option in LR to read metadata from the file.
If you're not a software or geotagging geek (like me) you might not want to bother with this until upgrades are made and it is in a more stable release state. I did run into some errors, performance issues, and not everything is totally intuitive. But this has great potential and I'll be watching for updates closely.
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0 repliesI got it to work pretty easily with a few .cr2 files from my Canon 30D and .gpx files output from Garmin Mapsource. I did not get it to work with DNG files. I think that's because the plugin works with the sidecar files. Before running the plugin, you need to write metadata to a file (under the Metadata menu item in LR). Next, select your photos and run the plugin, which updates the metadata sidecar file. Lastly, select the option in LR to read metadata from the file.
If you're not a software or geotagging geek (like me) you might not want to bother with this until upgrades are made and it is in a more stable release state. I did run into some errors, performance issues, and not everything is totally intuitive. But this has great potential and I'll be watching for updates closely.