[Digikam-devel] [Bug 133359] WISH: Google maps support to show satellite images of the photos

[Arnd Baecker]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Fabien wrote:

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> ------- Additional Comments From fabien.ubuntu gmail com  2006-09-05 13:35 -------
> I'm not sure it's digikam's job to produce a kml file, which is a specific file format from Google.
> It would be better, IMHO, to produce a GPX file with waypoints using the picture location and comments.
> Now, google earth can read gpx files. Maybe google map will be able to do that, or  it's very easy to convert the gpx format to kml using gpsbabel. There is even a web frontend to this tool :
> http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/gpsbabel/
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> I think there are great opportunities with geolocation, and we are just at the beginning of a new era :)
> Another feature could be to select a zone on a map and to be able to see all pictures from this area...

Yes that would be nice (+ combine with the conventional search methods).

Some related points:

A) Display a map with symbols and thumbnail on mouse-over:

When on a map which has symbols for the places where photos
have been taken, the corresponding thumbnail could be displayed
(and on-click be selected ...)
See http://jrhicks.net/67 for an on-line example...

B) Local storage of maps:

I would also like to see support for maps which a user can store
locally: not always one has a internet connnection and
there are many cases, where publically available maps
are not detailed enough and one has to use scanned maps (etc.).

However, I think that the original question is not yet answered:

How does one most conveniently supply images with GPS information
(if one does not have a GPS device)?
No problem for just one image or a bunch of images
at the same place. But for many?

Somehow something like a list of images to the left and

  ...                 [                    ]
  image_thumb_11      [                    ]
  image_thumb_12      [    MAP             ]
  image_thumb_13      [                    ]
  ....                [                    ]
                      [ Zoom In/Out| Move  ]

Clicking on some position in the MAP associates the corresponding
GPS coordinates to all selected images.

((Thinking of a hike in the mountains very detailed maps
might be needed, hence B) above))

Best, Arnd

P.S.: I just came across:
http://www.carto.net/projects/photoTools/gpsPhoto/
which is a GPL commandline tool to synchronize a gps (gpx)
tracklog with the date/time stamps of the image exif-data.
This even does support RAW (cr2 and nef) in addition to jpeg.