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

[Gilles Caulier]

i18n of course, for all translations problems...

Gilles Caulier

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