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

Julien Narboux Julien at narboux.fr
Sat Aug 22 15:00:37 BST 2009


Hi,

I am curious, why do you use GeoTag for geotagging images instead of 
Digikam itself using the menu entry "Image/Geolocation"  ?

Regards,

Julien
>
> 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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