[Digikam-users] Odd behaviour of geotagging in digiKam 1.3.0

[Stedtlund]

2010/7/20 Michael G. Hansen <mike at mghansen.de>:
> On 07/20/2010 05:28 PM, Stedtlund wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have just gone up to digiKam 1.3.0, and I can see a rather odd
>> behaviour when geotagging images.
>>
>> The first image worked ok, but after that one I couldn't choose any
>> coordinates because the map was just gray. Choosing a bookmarked
>> position only gave the coordinates 0, 0, 0.
>>
>> Then I saw under properties that there were two radiobuttons for
>> choosing api towards google. In my swedish translated version those
>> two had the same api versions, V2. The first was selected so  tried
>> the second, and now it works allmost as before. The only difference
>> seems to be that it's only possible to zoom in/out with +/- buttons.
>> The scale is not visible any more.
>
> The first option should be V2, the second one should be V3. Maybe you
> can file a bug report about this for the translation team? Each of the
> APIs has its own quirks, so we make both of them available, and the user
> can use the one that works better for him.
I can do that.

>
> With the V2 version, a known problem is that after a few times of
> opening the coordinates editor, no satellite tiles are displayed for
> some hours or until you change your IP address.
>
> Zooming with the scroll wheel works fine for me in V3 here.
I don't have a scroll wheel, only the two +/- buttons. Konqueror shows
the scroll wheel though.

>
> Another test would be to load the Google Maps code which we use in
> Konqueror, to see whether it is a configuration issue (adblock, images
> disabled, javascript disabled, ...):
>
> http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/gpslocator/getlonlatalt.php?gmapsversion=3
Seems to work as expected.

>
> http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/gpslocator/getlonlatalt.php?gmapsversion=2
Same behaviour here as in digiKam, nothing displayed after a while.

>
> I hope this helps you somewhat,
>
> Michael
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/Anders