Now looking at this image here, I just want to have a another look at the metadata tab, and I'm in the Exif mode. And we've got all the usual suspects of the file dimensions and the dates and time, camera settings, and so forth. And if I click on any one of these little arrows, it's gonna take me to a whole bunch of other images that meet that same criteria. So for example, ISO 200, click bang, these are all images shot at ISO 200. Alternatively, if I was to click on let's say, the dates, the 12th 12th of April right there, I click there, these are all images taken on that particular day. So we can use these little arrows in the metadata tab or the Exif tab in particular, to jump to images that share that criteria.

Now, another interesting little metadata addition, down here is the GPS data, the global positioning satellite, and you'll see that the fields blank right here, so if my camera was capable of Capturing the GPS data. Then I could click on this little arrow here and it would take me directly to Google Maps and show me where on the map the photo was taken. So a great feature if you can capture the GPS data on your camera. Generally, most cameras you have to buy a separate device to enable that GPS capture. Certainly smartphones do it very easily. And if we have a look at this very next image here of the high speed train, in Japan, you see that I actually took this photo on my iPhone, and it has captured the GPS data.

You can see we got 34 degrees, four minutes, one second north, 135 degrees, 29 minutes, 57 seconds, aced. So these are the GPS coordinates for the point This photo was taken. Now there's a little button notice the altitude tells me that I'm minus 14.9 meters above sea level. So to put me basically 15 meters below sea level I've just I need to recently notice this as I was making the video and I thought, that's a bit odd what's going on there so I googled it. Turns out, it's it's just a bit of a bug in the JPS. It's not a Lightroom issue, I think it's more the iPhone has been making this mistake capturing the GPS data with negative values for the altitude.

So I just discard that. And I'll show you what I but I'll show you a solution that what I'm about to look at now. So I'm just going to jump into my quick collection, because I've just isolated these two images just for ease. So I don't end up loading my whole catalog in the map module, because that's where I'm going to go now, with this image of the shin Kansan selected, that's the high speed train in Japan, the shin Kansan, I'm going to click on this little arrow here, and you're gonna see what's going to happen. It's going to take me to Google Maps, but in the map module. So here we are now in the map module, and Google Maps is running through the Lightroom app module.

So when they added the map module in Lightroom, for this was part of the feature that it could hook into Google Maps and enable you to mark your images with their GPS so you can see a little bit more up the GPS data up here, the number coordinate GPS coordinates altitude incorrect, unfortunately and the direction that I was facing when I took the photo even. So that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. And it's sure enough, the photo was taken at Osaka station right there. And you can see the spot right down to precise spot on the platform that I was standing when I took the photo, clearly above sea level. So looking back at my other image here that was actually taken in Tokyo, at the lovely Shinjuku Grand Park in the cherry blossom season.

What I can actually do with an image with no GPS coordinates is I can go to the place on the map where the shot was taken, and it was certainly taken in the beautiful Shinjuku Gyan national gardens here as to the exact spot I get, I'll be guessing but I think it was around here somewhere from memory. Now watch this. I'm going to grab this photo, and I'm going to drag and drop it onto the map. So this is the one with no GPS coordinates. And watch what happens when I drop it onto the map just here. The GPS coordinates are extracted from Google Maps, and they're saved with the photo.

So as you can see here, the GPS coordinates are right there 35.3 meters above sea level, in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan with the ISO Country Code of Japan. So this process is called reverse geocoding. That is the geocoding from the map into the image, as opposed to the geocoding I guess not reverse, but traditional geocoding that happens if the GPS coordinates are already in the image, whereas here, the reverse geocoding takes place. So that's a kind of cool feature, I think, I guess that would be most useful if your camera was capturing the GPS coordinates in the first place. Obviously dragging and dropping the images onto there is a bit of a drag. But of course, you can choose you know, select multiple image As if they were all taken in the same position, and you can drag and drop them on, and you'll get your coordinates.

But what's interesting here just on this bug with the the minus altitude if I grabbed this image and re encoded, so drag and drop it onto the platform there. Now, it's not going to let me do that, I think maybe I'll just move to a slightly different spot. There we go. So by moving that slightly up the platform, you can see it's now updated the GPS coordinates to put me 1.8 meters above sea level. So that's a little bit safer, I guess. But the GPS GPS coordinates remained pretty much the same.

And it's also taking all this additional location data as well. So that's the map module. That's the role of the map module to give you the ability to either see your images on a map if they already have GPS coordinates, or to drag and drop them onto the map to extract GPS coordinates. If that was the case, I'll just jump back into bridge for a moment and I'll just go to Japan and I'll just grab a Few more images from Shinjuku go on. And I'll just put them into my quick collection for a moment, just to illustrate if I was to jump into map, and now I can click on this image to take me back to Shinjuku Park. And I believe I can just use the plus or minus case, to zoom in and out.

And it gives me a little bit of a Apple complaint noise there. I'm not sure why but it's still doing what I want. And I can just select these multiple images here and again, drag and drop them, drag and drop them onto the map. And now I've got two more images there with that GPS data that is now become searchable, now becomes searchable and yet searchable. That's what I'm trying to say, isn't it? So I'm just a bit distracted with the little my little cursor circle seems to have gotten itself confused.

Now it's moving in a different direction to my actual cursor, but hopefully that doesn't interfere with my demonstration of The map module