Generating KMZ-File

I promised to finetune my Lightroom export setting and publish it here. Not that I am really satisfied with it, but as Tim asked for it, I publish the current status.

You need to install Lightroom Transporter.

Here is the Lightroom export preset (use context menu “save target to …”):
kml-export.lrtemplate

Note that this preset also moves camera settings as well as “IPTC Title” and “IPTC Image Description” to the KML-File.

I have to perform the following steps to create a kmz file:

  1. Select the geocoded photos in Lightrom
  2. Make sure that “IPTC Title” and “IPTC Image Description” are filled properly
  3. Export the photos using the preset above, you get a KML file named “summary.kml”
  4. Create a kml-file from the relevant tracks. I manage my tracks in MyTracks which provides an kml export feature.
  5. Open both kml-files in googleMaps, move the track to the temporary location with the photos
  6. Export the temporary location to a KMZ-File.

Known issues:

  • One has to click twice to an image to show the image in googleMaps properly. I gues this comes from the fact that I increased the size of theimages
  • I would love get rid of the manual steps

Kommentar von Exporting KML files from Lightroom using LR/Transporter | Timothy Armes' Blog am 12.1.2009

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Kommentar von Louis Dallara am 6.3.2009

I’m attempting to get a KLM file out of Light Room.
I’m down to step where you enter the IPTC data. This is where I’m confused.
There are 4 sections to the data.
1-IPTC Contact
2-IPTC Image
3-IPTC Content
4-IPTC Status
Not sure where “IPTC Title” and “IPTC Image
Description” is located?

There’s a “Title” under IPTC Status.

Under content there’s “Description Writer”
Question is that where the description goes?

Thanks for the great plugin..
Lou

Kommentar von Louis Dallara am 6.3.2009

Hi Bernhard;

I get the follow error on export:

Unable to Export:
an internal error has occurred:./LRTransporterExportTask.lua:191:bad argument#1 to ‘child’ (string expected got, null)

Kommentar von bwl21 am 6.3.2009

Louis, I think you should report the problem to Tim

Kommentar von bwl21 am 6.3.2009

Louis, I think the best is to try it out. Make an export with all keywords, then you can try it out.

Kommentar von Louis Dallara am 6.3.2009

Hi Bernhard;

Thanks for the reply, I reported to Tim, cause it look like the errors coming from his script.

I did try with some data, I will try some other outputs to see that the script runs though.

Thanks again
Cheers

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