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

[Stedtlund]

Should I file the bug against digiKam or any other product, e.g. i18n?

/Anders

2010/7/21 Stedtlund <falolaf at gmail.com>:
> 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
>