[Digikam-users] Need photograph files including GPS informations...

[Gilles Caulier]

Le Dimanche 9 Avril 2006 07:26, Gerhard Kulzer a écrit :
> On Tuesday 7 March 2006 21:22, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> > Le Mardi 7 Mars 2006 09:35, Christoph Knauer a écrit :
> > > Hi Gilles,
> > >
> > > Cameras with GPS might be not very often, and not in
> > > consumer/prosumer-areas like us but more in the highend-systems, so I
> > > think it would be really difficult to get "real" gps-photographs :-)
> > >
> > > Christoph
> > >
> > > Am Montag, 6. März 2006 20:12 schrieb Gilles Caulier:
> > > > Le Lundi 6 Mars 2006 19:02, Christoph Knauer a écrit :
> > > >
> > > > of course, i can do it using ExifTool, but it's better to have a file
> > > > tagged dirrectly by a camera or another photo management software...
> > > >
> > > > Gilles
> >
> > I have seen to the web that any pro-camera can be connected to GPS
> > device. Another recent camera have a GPS embeded.
>
> No need for integrated GPS to use it, see this page
> http://freefoote.dview.net/linux_gpscorr.html
> With this SW one can, per automatic time correlation, extract GPS data from
> any commercial receiver track data to match the photographs, Just keep the
> clocks in sync!
>
> Gerhard
>

Well, i think we can add some informations like this in the next digiKam 
handbook. I will add this point in handbook TODO list.

Gilles