Lightroom Location Keywords

Lightroom's hierarchical keywords make it very easy to tag your photos with lots of meaningful data. For example, when I tag a photo with "San Francisco", it automatically inherits "San Francisco County", "California", and "USA". It is too much work to enter all that data manually, so I used the geographic data from the USGS geonames website and wrote some scripts to transform it into a format that Lightroom can import.

How To Import

To use the data, just download the location you want and unzip the file. This will give you a text file if you downloaded a state, or a folder with text files if you downloaded counties. Then use the Import Keywords option in the Metadata menu from within Lightroom to import the file or files you want. I have used several of these files with Lightroom 2 and 3 with no problems, but use the files at your own risk. You have all your photos and catalogs backed up, right? Good.

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Alabama: 67 counties, 578 places.

Alaska: 29 counties, 1876 places.

American Samoa: 5 counties, 109 places.

Arizona: 15 counties, 622 places.

Arkansas: 75 counties, 781 places.

California: 58 counties, 1765 places.

Colorado: 64 counties, 757 places.

Connecticut: 8 counties, 111 places.

Delaware: 3 counties, 69 places.

District of Columbia: 1 county, 2 places.

Federated States of Micronesia: 4 counties, 10 places.

Florida: 67 counties, 952 places.

Georgia: 159 counties, 847 places.

Guam: 1 county, 33 places.

Hawaii: 5 counties, 270 places.

Idaho: 44 counties, 554 places.

Illinois: 102 counties, 1183 places.

Indiana: 92 counties, 590 places.

Iowa: 99 counties, 921 places.

Kansas: 105 counties, 955 places.

Kentucky: 120 counties, 803 places.

Louisiana: 64 counties, 818 places.

Maine: 16 counties, 352 places.

Marshall Islands: 2 counties, 2 places.

Maryland: 24 counties, 496 places.

Massachusetts: 14 counties, 339 places.

Michigan: 83 counties, 894 places.

Minnesota: 87 counties, 1108 places.

Mississippi: 82 counties, 650 places.

Missouri: 115 counties, 918 places.

Montana: 56 counties, 787 places.

Nebraska: 93 counties, 679 places.

Nevada: 17 counties, 415 places.

New Hampshire: 10 counties, 155 places.

New Jersey: 21 counties, 597 places.

New Mexico: 32 counties, 629 places.

New York: 62 counties, 1004 places.

North Carolina: 100 counties, 693 places.

North Dakota: 53 counties, 518 places.

Northern Mariana Islands: 4 counties, 26 places.

Ohio: 88 counties, 1035 places.

Oklahoma: 77 counties, 767 places.

Oregon: 36 counties, 701 places.

Palau: 2 counties, 2 places.

Pennsylvania: 67 counties, 1185 places.

Puerto Rico: 77 counties, 246 places.

Rhode Island: 5 counties, 38 places.

South Carolina: 46 counties, 415 places.

South Dakota: 66 counties, 559 places.

Tennessee: 95 counties, 547 places.

Texas: 254 counties, 2249 places.

U.S. Minor Outlying Islands: 9 counties, 19 places.

Utah: 29 counties, 557 places.

Vermont: 14 counties, 135 places.

Virgin Islands: 3 counties, 7 places.

Virginia: 134 counties, 625 places.

Washington: 39 counties, 1035 places.

West Virginia: 55 counties, 414 places.

Wisconsin: 72 counties, 942 places.

Wyoming: 23 counties, 492 places.