[Digikam-users] New GPS tracker for photographers

[Arnd Baecker]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Pedro Lourenco Venda wrote:

> Arnd Baecker wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Pedro Lourenco Venda wrote:
> > Note that you can use gphoto2 to set the time of the camera.
> > Together with an up-to-date time for your computer (see ntpdate)
> > this works very well.
>
> Cool, I already use ntp regularly, but didn't know that gphoto2 could do
> that.

Essentially:
  gphoto2 --get-config time
and
  gphoto2 --set-config time=XXXXXXX
where the argument for time is the output of:
  date +%s
Important: you might have to add UTC_OFFSET*60*60 to
take into account the time zone offset.

There is another weird point: sometimes the gphoto2
command work immediately, and sometimes there is a delay
of 8-10s....
(Did not have time yet to ask on the gphoto2 mailing list ...)

> >> I wrote about it in my blog:
> >> http://pjvenda.blogspot.com/2007/09/my-new-toy-globalsat-dg-100-gps-data.html
> >
> > BTW (to all): feel free to update the digikam wiki
> > http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Digikam+Geolocalization
> > which already discusses the DG-100 and some other devices + gives
> > some useful links.
>
> I'll see what I can do later tonight.
>
> > However, the new (great!) information that it works with gps-babel
> > has not been added.
>
> Well... only the CVS HEAD does. They haven't released any version with
> code for handling the DG100 in it.

No problem, compiled fine in just a few minutes.

> Now if only I could do a decent build of digiKam for os X... The sad (or
> best) thing is that nothing (not even expensive complex commercial
> stuff) comes close to digiKam in terms of managing a photo library.

I think G. Boiko managed that. He is sometimes in the digikam IRC
(#digikam on irc.freenode.net) you could ask him ...

Best, Arnd