Ralf, Why blame Adobe for a change that Google made to a Google API?
This is the precise situation that led Apple to expend untold dollars in developing their own Maps system: not wanting to be reliant upon Google or anyone else's map APIs. Adobe just licenses the SDK from Google and tries to keep up with Google changes to that API. There are always slips and issues with that kind of arrangement, and if you're using a perpetual license version of Lightroom (like I am, v6.14 … the last ever update of the perpetual license version, according to Adobe), changes like this to the Google API will never be addressed. If you want this feature, now that Google has changed the underlying API, you must go to Lightroom CC or whichever version now is going to get development updates. I don't know of any other popularly priced image processing software that includes all of Lightroom's features as you describe below. I'm planning to retire Lightroom entirely within the next year and have not used PS or Bridge in years. I structured my file system layout and workflow at the very beginning (late 2006) to prepare for this change, because I knew that all things like this have an end. The question is how to get the features I want/use now without using PS/Bridge/Lightroom. To that end I've started evaluating a couple of other image processing systems. The two I've looked at the most, so far, are Affinity Photo and RAW Power. Both of these have versions which run on macOS and iOS (my two OS platforms … sorry, I know nothing about Windows or Linux versions since I never use those systems). Both do exceptionally clean raw conversions (RAW Power utilizes Apple's raw processing frameworks, which are really very good; I'm not sure about Affinity Photo). I've also got a copy of Luminar 2018 to work with, but haven't had time to look at it much yet. One of the advantages of RAW Power is that it works as an adjunct to Apple's Photos app(s) and can manipulate the Photos data stores. This nets you the advantage of using Photos tools for presentation and display, sharing, printing, and location evaluation while giving you a much better image processing front end. And other apps that use the Photos data stores (like Apple's suite of Pages, Keynote, Numbers, etc) can all access the rendered images directly as well. Combining RAW Power with these other apps and linking them through Automator for workflow operations will net what I want, I think, but I haven't finished learning either Photos or RAW Power to make a definitive statement. Another image management system that might add part of what you want back, in the absence of Lightroom, is Cumulus. It's worth looking into. The biggest challenge for me isn't the image management, or the GPS management. It's printing. LR's templated printing is hard to beat when it comes to wanting to put out a wide variety of print products consistently and efficiently. Good luck! G > On Dec 16, 2018, at 2:21 PM, Ralf R Radermacher <fotor...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Those [...insert choice expletive here...] at Adobe have ruined Lightroom 6 > for me. I often need to look for what photos I have of a particular place and > this function has been killed by some change to a Google API. > > Lightroom CC is out of the question for practical reasons (main phases of > activity at a place with dreadfully slow internet access) and for principal > questions. > > Tried Darktable and find it awfuly clumsy and far too slow. > > What else is there, if anything? I need the database function, the RAW > development tools, lens corrections, and the map function. > > Any suggestions? > > Ralf > > -- > Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany > Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com > Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf > Web : http://www.fotoralf.de -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
