[Digikam-users] GPS data for raw files in xmp sidecar

[Gilles Caulier]

2008/4/15, Marcel Wiesweg <marcel.wiesweg at gmx.de>:
> > Hi list,
>  > being interest in geotagging and script savvy I have a script for
>  > associating my ~ gps coordinate data with my raw image files by writing
>  > them (with Image::ExifTool) into an XMP sidecar file. It looks like this:
>  >
>  > <?xpacket begin='' id='W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d'?>
>  > <x:xmpmeta xmlns:x='adobe:ns:meta/' x:xmptk='Image::ExifTool 7.15'>
>  > <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf='http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#'>
>  > ~ <rdf:Description rdf:about=''
>  > ~  xmlns:exif='http://ns.adobe.com/exif/1.0/'>
>  > ~  <exif:GPSAltitude>546962/1169</exif:GPSAltitude>
>  > ~  <exif:GPSAltitudeRef>0</exif:GPSAltitudeRef>
>  > ~  <exif:GPSImgDirection>0/1</exif:GPSImgDirection>
>  > ~  <exif:GPSImgDirectionRef>T</exif:GPSImgDirectionRef>
>  > ~  <exif:GPSLatitude>47,50.230283N</exif:GPSLatitude>
>  > ~  <exif:GPSLongitude>12,58.573992E</exif:GPSLongitude>
>  > ~  <exif:GPSMapDatum>WGS-84</exif:GPSMapDatum>
>  > ~ </rdf:Description>
>  > ~ <rdf:Description rdf:about=''
>  > ~  xmlns:photoshop='http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/'>
>  > ~  <photoshop:City>Rott</photoshop:City>
>  > ~ </rdf:Description>
>  > </rdf:RDF>
>  > </x:xmpmeta>
>  > <?xpacket end='w'?>
>  >
>  > Now the question is: will the XMP support of future digikam versions read
>  > those sidecar files along with the embedded exif information from the raw
>  > file?
>
>
> About support for XMP and GPS coordinates in the database: Yes, this will be
>  supported in 0.10.
>  The problem here are the sidecar files, I dont know if they are supported yet
>  by libexiv2 or if there are plans for this. Actually, I dont know anything
>  about such files. Gilles?
>

Well, XMP sidecar support by libexiv2 is under progress. It will be
normally implemented for next release.

>  What is already working is to read in a GPX file from your GPS tracker,
>  associate with the Geolocalization KIPI plugin and have the data in the
>  digikam database. (Note: All this applies to the 0.10 / KDE4 version only)
>
>

Yes, and here i GPS tag all my RAW files using digiKam for KDE4. This
is want mean than a little script to extract GPS info from DB will be
trivial to do fo a script guru (not me)

Gilles