Lightroom: Metadata panel shows GPS coordinates incorrectly rounded to nearest second

Hi All,

We have fixed this issue in Lightroom Classic CC 7.2.

Thanks,
Smit
Lightroom Classic CC Team

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us-en

In my 4.1RC2, it appears the Metadata pane accepts these forms:

44°30'0" N 94°42'0" W
44 30 0 N 94 42 0 W
44.5N 94.7W

But you can't use:

44.5, -94.7

However, in the search box of the Map module, you can use all four forms.

The "LAT, -LNG" format for coordinates seems to be becoming the most commonly used. It would be nice if Lightroom joined the crowd.

It did work in 4.0, so either it was a conscience change or it's a bug.

With the 4.1 upgrade today, the metadata panel no longer accepts GPS coordinates I use of the form "29.713669,-95.404193" (without quotes). It results in "An internal error has occurred. bad argument #1 to 'trimWhitespace' (string expected, got number)" Needs immediate correction, my images are out-of-compliance with CBS and Associated Press guidelines and have to be edited in another program. Did you regression-test this?

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
LR 4.1 internal error for GPS coordinates.

I also want the 29.713669,-95.404193 form and can't understand why this is not present as its so much easier to deal with and so many other programs have moved over to this format.

Copying coordinates from Google Maps doesn't represent the exact same location in LR4.3

I would like to be able to enter decimal formatted coordinates and other popular formats either in the search or GPS field.

I too most certainly want to be able to just pick up the coordinates that Google Maps gives us and drop them as-is into the GPS box in Lightroom. If you can't do that Adobe needs to get Google to change the way they provide their latitude longitude coordinates!

This is not fixed in LR 5 Beta.

Yes - I too just bumped into this - it's a real pain!

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Lightroom: LR 4.1RC2 GPS altitude in development module doesn't handle decimal se....

LR4.1 RC2, platform: Windows 7 64bit, German
GPS altitude in development module doesn't handle decimal separator right.
Separator is set to "," on my PC (standard in Germany). Lightroom OUTPUTS the "," correct, but when the altitude field is left, it complains that altitude is invalid. When I however enter altitude with "." as decimal separator, LR accepts that.
Boys and girls, there's a world outside of the US :)

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Lightroom: Display GPS coordinates with more precision.

For those, such as biologists, who also use LR to keep precise GPS data associated with specific photographs (which is such a helpful feature), ensuring that LR maintains the original precision of the data entered would be a very desirable upgrade.

I recently obtained excellent help from Victoria Bampton (http://www.lightroomqueen.com/) in figuring out how to manually enter GPS coordinates into LR, which I now use for the very specific reason mentioned above. Therefore, precision of the data is of utmost importance. However, in the process of then entering my data I have noticed three things in LR:
1) Lightroom actually rounds up the coordinates after they are entered before accepting them; 45o49'05.5''N77o00'52.9''W therefore actually becomes 45o49'6''N77o00'53''W. So that's a small loss in precision.

2) It's possible to convert coordinates to the degrees-decimals format (45o49'05.5''N77o00'52.9''W therefore becomes 45.81819N-77.01469) and Lightroom will accept them as well. However, it will not keep them recorded in degrees decimals, but convert them back to degrees-minutes-seconds, and round them up again in the process, still loosing precision.

3) Interestingly enough, it rounds them slightly differently and the result is now 45o49'5''N77o00'53''W. A very minor difference, but still.

I don't know if geotagging data that is associated in LR with photographs with the many available apps also gets rounded that way, but I would certainly suggest an update in LR that ensure that any coordinates entered, either manually or through geotagging applications or other means, retain the original precision with which they were entered in LR, whatever that precision is, without any rounding applied.

Adobe, through the addition of GPS data to Lightroom, has knowingly or unknowingly, created an incredible tool that goes far beyond remembering where a picture was taken an seeing it on a map. And I'm certain that there are many other groups, other than biologists, that also see in this function a godsend in being able to keep precise data associated with pictures, in something as user-friendly as the metadata interface in Lightroom, and use it directly without having to use other applications.

Best regards.

As of LR CC 2015.10, you can enter GPS coordinates in the Metadata panel using decimal form, e.g.

37.899630, -119.221138

The coordinates get stored properly in the catalog, the photo will display in that exact location in the Map module, and the photo will export with those coordinates.  

But LR still (in 2017) shows the coordinates in the Metadata panel rounded to the nearest second.