<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#5d100a"><font face="Ubuntu"><font style="font-size:14pt" size="4"><span style="font-weight:normal">Hello </span></font></font></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#5d100a"><font face="Ubuntu"><font style="font-size:14pt" size="4"><span style="font-weight:normal">Am using Linux Mint 20, Digikam 6.4.0 (target Debian)<br><br></span></font></font></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#5d100a"><font face="Ubuntu"><font style="font-size:14pt" size="4"><span style="font-weight:normal">I primarily use digikam to import and organize my Nikon DSLR Raw (.NEF) images. <br><u><br>My question is what are sidecars ?</u><br></span></font></font></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#5d100a"><font face="Ubuntu"><font style="font-size:14pt" size="4"><span style="font-weight:normal"><br></span></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#5d100a"><font face="Ubuntu"><font style="font-size:14pt" size="4"><span style="font-weight:normal">What
is the best option for me to select when enabling sidecars so that i
could append metadata that will then be available when i export to jpeg /
png (etc) .</span></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#5d100a"><font face="Ubuntu"><font style="font-size:14pt" size="4"><span style="font-weight:normal"><br></span></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#5d100a"><font face="Ubuntu"><font style="font-size:14pt" size="4"><span style="font-weight:normal">I understand that it is best (as yet) to try and not write data to raw files (experimental as yet)<br></span></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#5d100a"><font face="Ubuntu"><font style="font-size:14pt" size="4"><span style="font-weight:normal"><br></span></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#5d100a"><font face="Ubuntu"><font style="font-size:14pt" size="4"><span style="font-weight:normal">Ideally
my meta data would include (Geolocation, some / many tags like birds,
flowers etc or even more specific binomial scientific names)<br></span></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#5d100a"><font face="Ubuntu"><font style="font-size:14pt" size="4"><span style="font-weight:normal"><br></span></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#5d100a"><font face="Ubuntu"><font style="font-size:14pt" size="4"><span style="font-weight:normal">The targets are websites like <a href="http://inaturalist.org" target="_blank">inaturalist.org</a> and <a href="http://ebird.org" target="_blank">ebird.org</a> - which pick up metadata to geolocate pictures or even identify the creature from meta data .</span></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#5d100a"><font face="Ubuntu"><font style="font-size:14pt" size="4"><span style="font-weight:normal"><br></span></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#5d100a"><font face="Ubuntu"><font style="font-size:14pt" size="4"><span style="font-weight:normal">Currently I enter the geolocation manually for pictures I am uploading.<br></span></font></font></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#5d100a"><font face="Ubuntu"><font style="font-size:14pt" size="4"><span style="font-weight:normal"><br></span></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#5d100a"><font face="Ubuntu"><font style="font-size:14pt" size="4"><span style="font-weight:normal">Thanks<br></span></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#5d100a"><font face="Ubuntu"><font style="font-size:14pt" size="4"><span style="font-weight:normal">Ram</span></font></font></font></div></div>