[Digikam-users] Automatic filling of IPTC/XMP location tags based on GPS coordinates

[Michael G. Hansen]

Hi Milan,

On 05/09/2010 10:31 AM, Milan Knížek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> are there any plans among digiKam developers to implement automatic
> population of location tags on the basis of GPS coordinates? (I.e.
> search through internet databases and fill country and city, which is
> closest to the GPS location.)

yes, there are! Gabriel Voicu is working on this as part of his GSOC 
project. We intend to get data from Google Maps reverse geocoding, 
openstreetmap nominatim and geonames.org.

Cheers,

Michael