[Digikam-users] metadata template applying bug - please check

[Michał Smoczyk]

Milan Knížek wrote:

> BTW, how do you use the templates in real life? The template sets many
> tags, some of which change with each image (e.g. Location, Subject).
> Also, even that the template does not have some fields populated, the
> empty tags are created in the image and possibly overwrite the existing
> information (!). I would think that a template is usefull for metadata,
> which do not change much and are shared by many pictures (such as
> Credit, Copyright, etc.).

Yes, I agree, in present form metadata templates are useful only if
you want to set copyright-like metadata, and NOT have location and
subject-like metadata set (will be overwritten). Boolean flags in
templates will resolve this problem, but unfortunately we have to
wait for 1.0.0.

In my workflow, I don't use metadata templates in digiKam, after
recognizing this behavior I am aware of this. My usually steps with
JPEGs are (with RAW I'm shooting in some important situations this
is more complicated due *exiv2* doesn't write support for Canon RAW
CR2 I shot):

1) geotagging images using GeoTag, syncing from GPX file
2) reverse geocoding with GeoTag (in this step IPTC location tags
are written)
3) finally setting tags, keywords, captions etc. in digiKam

Regards,

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