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Are you sure the lookup hasn't already been done back in LR5 when you imported the images? Check the metadata panel for one of the images, make sure Exif & IPTC is the Metadata Set being shown, look in the Location boxes in the IPTC section.
It's not doing anything differently, but it only works when it's got new images with GPS data to work on. It's not a "new feature", it's just one of the things that have been included in the new Activity Centre. The only really new feature in there is the face recognition indexing.
Address Lookup and Face Detection are also checkboxes on the Metadata tab in Catalog preferences.Oh...I guess its placement right above the face detection is what confused me into it being a new feature. Thanks for the heads up.
It's the new term for "Reverse Geo-encoding". Check your catalog settings>Metadata tab and you'll see a couple of check boxes that explain it. If you have it enabled and an image has GPS co-ordinates, then Lightroom will attempt to locate the address and populate the Location fields in the Metadata panel. So if you import a bunch of images with GPS co-ordinates, and that setting is enabled, you should see a progress bar in the Address Lookup section of the Activity Centre.
JimIt only works automatically on new imports, and only then if they have GPS data stored in the metadata.
It can also be used selectively on already-imported images if you use the Map module to apply the GPS data to them, when you do that and Reverse Geo-encoding is enabled it will do the address lookup to try to populate the location metadata fields.
Hi JimI don't think you can. I think I was wrong when I said that it only works automatically on new imports, as it seems that it will work on ANY photo in the library that has GPS co-ordinates and no location data.