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egner64
May 13th, 2010, 12:47 PM
Hi there!
Next to Adobe's LR Downloader Pro plays a significant role in my digital photos workstream.
However there is one point: I find the accuracy of geonames.org unaccurate and therefore recode the location using MS ProPhoto Tools 2 which provides much better results.
Question: Is there a way to include Live Local instead of geonames.org for providing location information?
Thanks and regards
Thomas

Chris Breeze
May 14th, 2010, 12:22 PM
Sorry, Downloader Pro only supports the free geonames service at the moment.

tzphotos.com
May 15th, 2010, 02:59 AM
Hi there!
Next to Adobe's LR Downloader Pro plays a significant role in my digital photos workstream.
However there is one point: I find the accuracy of geonames.org unaccurate and therefore recode the location using MS ProPhoto Tools 2 which provides much better results.
Question: Is there a way to include Live Local instead of geonames.org for providing location information?
Thanks and regards
Thomas

I have to agree with you. geonames.org comes up with some strange results. Many times it is a neighborhood name instead of the name of the actual city. I have also seen it use the name of the park instead of the city name.

It would be nice to have an alternative service to supply the info.

egner64
May 15th, 2010, 08:08 PM
Hi Chris,
Thanks for your reply. Do you think of adding alternative reverse geocoders as possible e.g. in GPS PhotoLinker/MAC?
Thx Thomas