[Digikam-devel] [Bug 199157] New: Introducing Place Finder Sidebar

[Michal Thoma]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199157

           Summary: Introducing Place Finder Sidebar
           Product: digikam
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Ubuntu Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: digikam-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: michal at thoma.cz


Version:           0.10 (using KDE 4.2.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

I would like to have a Place Finder sidebar tool which will work with standard
IPTC/XMP Origin set of data. This is different and in many cases more practical
approach than geolocation.

The idea behind is that IPTC/XMP contains heirarchical set of data for:

County or Country code < Privnce/State < City < Sublocation

This four predefined hierarchical levels are unfortunately still just loosely
used in Digikam (even batch assigning is impossible). Though can be very
beneficial. Actually many people are probably using similar hierarchy using
tags/keywords. Employing this existing IPTC/XMP fields will be more valid
approach allowing much easier and transparent interchangeability.

The idea of Place Finder Sidebar is just it will allow to browse images in
similar way as Tags sidebar jut only employing this Origin tags instead.

So list of the countries at first level, Privince/State on second, then City
and Sublocation. If i.e. there are images wihtough Province/State tag set, the
City or Sublocaton will be dsplayed directly under Country. (Or another
approach display "Undefined" category).

The Microsoft's MediaExpression (formerly iView Media Pro) has Place Finder
Sidebar and I was using that extensively on many projects.

In future I can imagine procedures which will automatically fill these
metadatas to images according to geolocation tags and vice versa will fill
geolocation to images according to this origin metadata (though not
accurately).

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