Comments on: Killer Lightroom Tip If You Don’t Have GPS in Your Camera, But Want Your Images Added To Lightroom’s Map

By: Scott Kelby

Scott Kelby — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 15:03:49 +0000

Mike – I didn’t know about that one – I have to check it out. Thanks! 🙂

By: Mike Worley

Mike Worley — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 13:00:37 +0000

Good if you are shooting in a single location, or remember to take phone photos every time you change locations. Personally, I use an app called MyTracks. You activate it at the start of your shoot and it logs your location in intervals that you can select. It created a GPX file which can then be imported into Lightroom to tag photo locations based on time stamps.

I use it for street and journalistic photography, where I might take 100 shots in a dozen different locations and it’s extremely accurate and easy to use.

By: Dave P

Dave P — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 14:54:57 +0000

Good old drag-and-drop! SO much simpler than what I had been doing, which was copying and pasting the GPS coordinates from a geotagged photo. Thanks, Terry and Scott!

By: Al

Al — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 07:04:17 +0000

In reply to Scott Kelby. If you own a smartphone you already own a GPS tracker !

By: Scott Kelby

Scott Kelby — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 16:52:24 +0000

In reply to Eric Vaandering. Hi, Eric. You are absolutely right, it is faster and easier if you already own a GPS tracker. If you don't then you have to buy one, and remember to use it, and all that. This solution is mostly for folks who have already taken the photos and didn't have either built-in GPS or a tracker. :)

By: Eric Vaandering

Eric Vaandering — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 15:51:17 +0000

This tip is good in a pinch, but….

If you know you’re going to do this, it’s much easier to run a GPS tracker (like AllTrails, but there are others) and use the GPX file to just tag everything. Much easier than making sure you remember to take a phone photo at each location you take SLR photos.

GPS LOG files from Canon cameras, at least, can be converted to GPX as well.