Father of Location and GPS in Lightroom
Many of my friends know that I’ve been pretty infatuated with the new Adobe Lightroom product even before it’s release. I’ve brought nearly 40,000 photos into Lightroom and I’m finding it incredibly powerful for managing my ever growing collection of photos.
Lightroom offers many ways to navigate your photos. I’ve spent 90% of my Lightroom time in the Library module just getting things organized, put into collections, keywords applied and making the metadata useful.
One of the metadata items I’ve been particularly excited about has been the Location information. Lightroom by default uses the IPTC fields for country, state, city and place (in order) to identify where pictures were taken. Want to see all pictures you took on the strip in Las Vegas, click. All pictures you took in Times Square? click. It’s great stuff.
I ran across this article though about true GPS integration with Lightroom and I about fainted. It’s a definite read, and highlights a great integration of Lightroom with Google Maps and GPS devices. I need one of these hotshoe GPS things!
I know there’s been the Aperture/LightRoom rivalry but does Adobe live up to their user-friendly interface reputation?
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yes adobe does. the UI for adobe is intuitive and there are many shortcuts that once you find them out, make a lot of sense and leave you with a sense of like “oh why didn’t i try that LOL” because they are so obvious.
So did you get it working? Any feedback on how complex the integration is?
This hotshoe thing seemed to never even get to market. I watched for it for a long time and it just never showed up. I’ve given up on that solution.
I now have a Canon 40D which has a USB adapter add-on that can then interface with a GPS. I’d love to do it, but the price is ridiculous.
There is still no cheap GPS solution from what I can tell. Sadly.