


Adobe’s official workaround suggestion for users is to copy the GPS coordinates from a photo’s Metadata and then do an online search with them, but it was discovered that the issue could be fixed by replacing Adobe’s expired Google Maps API key with your own personal key. The map module in Lightroom stopped working last year after Adobe’s API key apparently expired.

“That is not Adobes’ fault, but I believe they do have a responsibility to their license owners… Not to change LR itself, but to help fix these external problems.” “Adobe has stopped supporting LR6 (which is OK) but the problem is that earlier the Google license for the Maps functionality expired (for which a workaround was found by users) and now the face-id license expired. “Problem is that Adobe licenses Face-Recognition from another company in the form of a DLL,” a forum member named TML59 writes. One explanation for these issues is the expiration of 3rd-party licenses Adobe used for features in the app.
