Felipe Rodriguez Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 Hello! While I find the new image manager to be pretty good (and much better than the previous versions), I'm getting a bit confused about geotagging. I geotag my images with the Lightroom map module, and, when exported, my files show their geotags on websites like 500px or flickr. However, when I upload those same pictures to Alamy, their geotags metadata are just missing, and I must do it again, what is time consuming and pretty annoying, of course. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance for your help and regards from Spain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felipe Rodriguez Posted September 21, 2017 Author Share Posted September 21, 2017 Anyone out there? As far as I know, the Lightroom map embeds geographical coordinates just in the same way that any GPS device would do, so I don't understand why those metadata don't show up on Alamy after uploading the files, while they do on other photo sites like Flickr or 500px. Any further help would be greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Lowe Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 Alamy only import the Description (Caption), Keywords and Date fields (plus Headline for news images), everything else is discarded I'm afraid. I know, it seems daft to discard the location information then ask us to enter it manually - maybe Alamy will change the system someday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felipe Rodriguez Posted September 22, 2017 Author Share Posted September 22, 2017 16 hours ago, Vincent Lowe said: Alamy only import the Description (Caption), Keywords and Date fields (plus Headline for news images), everything else is discarded I'm afraid. I know, it seems daft to discard the location information then ask us to enter it manually - maybe Alamy will change the system someday. Hello Vincent. Many thanks for your reply. I see... that´s what I was afraid of. Kind of absurd! Regards! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Baker Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 I use Lightroom and years ago used the Map tool to geolocate all my RAWs. But neither Alamy nor my other upload sites use this data so I've given up, not needing any geographical info for future use. It is a shame that Alamy can't extract this data as it would make locating new pictures much more exact. But perhaps buyers don't need it to be that exact? Richard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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