[Digikam-users] Automatic filling of IPTC/XMP location tags based on GPS coordinates

[Milan Knížek]

Gilles Caulier píše v Po 10. 05. 2010 v 12:30 +0200:
> 2010/5/9 Michael G. Hansen <mike at mghansen.de>:
> >
> > Just to be sure we are talking about the same thing here: You mean the
> > City/Sublocation/State/Province/Country fields in the "Edit
> > Metadata->XMP->Origin" plugin?
> >
> > Output of exiv2 -PX
> > Xmp.photoshop.City                   XmpText     8  somecity
> > Xmp.photoshop.State                  XmpText    14 state/province
> > Xmp.photoshop.Country                XmpText     7  Germany
> > Xmp.iptc.Location                    XmpText    11  sublocation
> > Xmp.iptc.CountryCode                 XmpText     3  DEU
> 
Yes, that is what I meant.

> These tags exist too in IPTC schema, where XMP is an adaptation. Of
> course, XMP is the right way to set these information to metadata,
> instead to used IPTC. At leaset both can be synchronized when it's
> possible. Remember IPTC limitation in strings size and char encoding.

I had used only the original IPTC schema in the past years, but during
the last weekend I migrated those to the new XMP schema as Michael
wrote.

I plan to keep both XMP/IPTC location schemas updated also for the
future, even that it requires to use other software then digiKam at the
moment :-(

regards,

Milan Knizek
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