USING IMAGE LOCATION DATA
5 At the bottom of the map screen you can see a new
notification appear, that gives you the name and postcode
of the location, as well as the accurate map coordinates that we
need for the location metadata. Simply highlight the coordinates
with your mouse (left-to-right only), right-click on it and select
Copy from the menu.
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Next, we go back to our unlocated image in the
Lightroom Library Module. Right-click in the GPS field of
the location metadata panel and select Paste from the menu.
This will paste the copied coordinates from the Google Maps
page into the field. Lightroom can recognise several different
coordinate formats.
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With the images that you just tagged still selected, click
on the Map Module tab at the top of the screen. You
should immediately see that there is now a new map location,
highlighted in yellow, indicating the position of the selected
images. You can zoom in on these by using the mouse scroll
wheel to check the location.7 Once you’ve pasted in the copied data, hit the Return
key. Lightroom will automatically translate the Google
Maps decimal format coordinates into its preferred degrees,
minutes and seconds format; and will automatically fill in the
information in the city, province and country fields, as well as
the ISO country code for Britain, GB.
10 Zooming in on the map confirms that your added
coordinates have accurately located the photos at the
Natural History Museum, and clicking on the flag shows preview
confirming they are the right images. As long as you can
find the location on a map, you can use this method to add
geolocation data to any image in your library.8 If you’ve got a batch of photos that were all shot in the
same location, you can add this location data to all of
them at once by selecting them all in the Library Module grid
view and then adding the coordinates in the same way as
before. You should see a confirmation screen asking if you
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