Can Lightroom CC 2015 geotag only photos that fall within recorded GPX track times?
Asked 6/21/2015
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I imported a GPX file from my GPS watch into Lightroom CC 2015. The file contains several separate tracks, each about 30 minutes to 2 hours long, and my photo timestamps are already synced correctly.
When I select all photos from the whole trip and use Lightroom’s automatic geotagging, Lightroom also assigns locations to photos taken outside the recorded track times by interpolating a straight line between known points. That gives incorrect locations.
Is there a way in Lightroom CC 2015, without using plugins, to geotag only the photos whose capture times fall within the GPX track periods and leave the others untouched?
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Jeffrey Friedel´s “Geoencoding Support” Plugin for Lightroom offers geotagging abilities that are way beyond Lightroom´s capabilities including the ability to load GPX tracks and limit the import by time stamps.
Originally by user38535. Source · Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0
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Lightroom CC 2015 does not appear to offer that level of control by itself. If you geotag all selected photos, it can interpolate locations between known track points, which is why photos outside your recorded track periods end up on a false straight line.
Based on the available answers, the built-in workaround is to manually select only the photos you want to geotag. If you want Lightroom to limit geotagging automatically by timestamp ranges from the GPX data, you’ll need a plugin rather than Lightroom alone.
A commonly recommended option is Jeffrey Friedl’s Geoencoding Support plugin, which provides more advanced GPX-based geotagging and can constrain matching using timestamps.
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