[Digikam-users] Import labels tree from external files

[jim junk]

> At least from beta 6 (rev.: 1032854M) the "Map searches"
> has a button "Map settings" where one can select Openstreetmap.

Yes!  Thank you, I found the button with the menu.  For me, professionally, this is the killer feature.  To be able to find that handful of photos that were taken in a given area out of a gallery of tens of thousands; well it's way better than fantastic.  I've been waiting for this feature for many, many years and to have been able to find it in an open source program is really great.

Two more questions if you have the time.  The first is not too important but compared to Open streets in Firefox the applet in DigiKam is much slower to download images and the images are not as sharp.  Is that a problem on my end or is it just a problem with the applet.

The second issue is much more important as I have a dialup connection at work and I'm not sure that the Open Streets option will be functional with the slow dialup speeds.  I use the Google Earth application at work but I'm able to run it from the cache.  I brought the box home and put it on the home network, were I have ADSL and then ran Google Earth over my area of concern so it cached the aerials that I need for work.  Note that I'm only interested in an area that's about 16 by 12 kilometres.  Will I be able to do the same with Open Streets?  Is there some option to have Open Streets, or the applet look locally for maps?

Again thanks for your assistance.

jw

> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:43:53 +0100
> From: arnd.baecker at web.de
> To: digikam-users at kde.org
> Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] Import labels tree from external files
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, jim junk wrote:
> 
> >
> > There is a choice I believe for google maps or open street maps
> > for geocoding photos but I didn't see that option for the marble applet
> > to find photos.   I'd be happy to be wrong.  I have some geospacial
> > experience and would be willing to add a georectified raster or vector
> > map to use locally if that is possible.
> 
> At least from beta 6 (rev.: 1032854M) the "Map searches"
> has a button "Map settings" where one can select Openstreetmap.
> 
> As far as I know, there is now support currently for additional
> maps (Though in principle this should be doable when
> marble supports the corresponding kml elements
> (GroundOverlay and LatLonBox) ).
> 
> Best, Arnd
> 
> > > Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:55:03 +0100
> > > From: arnd.baecker at web.de
> > > To: digikam-users at kde.org
> > > Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] Import labels tree from external files
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > > I'm experimenting with DigKam now in Kubuntu as the the ability to do
> > > > a search by just drawing a polygon on a map would be really useful but
> > > > of course the existing maps lack sufficient scale to accomplish what I
> > > > need.
> > >
> > > Did you also try to choose Openstreetmap for the maps
> > > (though I am not sure whether this is already present
> > > in the currently available digikam in kubuntu).
> > >
> > > And if there is any detail missing, just contribute
> > > to openstreetmap, see eg
> > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners'_Guide  ;-)
> > >
> > > Best, Arnd
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