Got an app for that?

[RobFromRedland]

Seems like I tried Picasa once, and got frustrated with it. Maybe for the very same reason I never took to Lightroom. They both attempt to "manage" your photos for you, right? As I recall, Picasa wanted to catalog everything before I could do anything, which seemed very presumptuous.

But, I do have it, and I think I'll fire it up again, too, just to be sure I'm not misremembering.

Well, when you import your photos, it asks you to put your photos in an album, but other than that, I don't think it does anything to "manage" them. It does allow you to seamlessly upload to the picasa web site (which I don't use) - I basically use it to organize them and edit them. Once I've done that I upload them to my web photo site.

It works well for me, but YMMV.

[kepPNW]

Well, I just tried Picasa and it totally barfed trying to catalog all my photos, and then managed to lockup Google Earth with fine efficiency!

So, next I tried Lightroom (5.2), and it seems to work really well at finding the coordinates. What I can't figure out is how they actually get written into the file? The photo is showing up precisely where it should on the map within Lightroom, but if I query the file with exiftool no coordinates are found. (I'm not finely attuned to Adobe-Thought!)

EDIT: Got it! This'll work! Thanks much, all.