[Digikam-devel] [digikam] [Bug 351987] New: WISH: Digikam should allow search by Country, City, etc. when appropriate geotags exist

[Jens B. Benecke]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351987

            Bug ID: 351987
           Summary: WISH: Digikam should allow search by Country, City,
                    etc. when appropriate geotags exist
           Product: digikam
           Version: 4.12.0
          Platform: Ubuntu Packages
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: Geolocation
          Assignee: digikam-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: jens-bugs.kde.org at spamfreemail.de

Search by geotags is implemented but not useful. I do not wish to look up the
geotags associated to a specific area before searching.

iPhoto and other media browsers allow searching by country,
region/district/departement, city and named location (which have a specified
size or radius). This should work within Digikam too.
Apparently, the data is there: In
https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-users/2010-May/010422.html, there is
talk about a GSoC project which autofills the IPTC location tags according to
the latitude and longitude data of a photo. Has this ever been done? Can this
feature be manually activated for a specific set of photos after import? It
does not happen with Digikam 4.12.0 on my PC.

If this feature is there, the only thing that's missing is a "Places" browser
that displays the IPTC locations tree in the left sidebar which can be used to
filter the images displayed in the main view (please allow multiselection
here), whether this be the map or thumbnails. (And one item at the top "No
Geotag" which lists all images without geotag information.) This view should
scale well, I have over 40,000 images in Germany alone. :-)

There should be four levels: Country, Region, City, Geolocations Bookmark (I
don't think we need all 31 xAL* attributes here...). Of course this implies
that the Geo bookmarks also "know" which City they belong to.

I don't really need "search" if I can browse by human-readable locations. But a
filter box at the top would still be nice. I'm perfectly willing to discuss and
review mockups. :)

Thank you!

* eXtensible Address Language, originally used by Google for Google Maps.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Wishlist, therefore no reproducability.

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