[Digikam-users] Support for geographic direction in geo tags?

[Martin Burnicki]

Hi all,

I'm often using a small GPS geo tagger to record my current location when I'm 
taking photos, and use DK's geotagger/correlator feature to read the exported 
GPX file and assign the locations to the photos. This works great, and 
another great DK feature is to be able to assign a location to a photo 
manually, pointing to the location on a map.

In my opinion it it would often also be helpful to know the geographic 
direction at which a photo was taken from the given location.

As far as I know some high end cameras with an integrated GPS receiver have 
also a built-in compass, so they also "know" the direction at which a photo 
is taken, and can save this information in the photo's metadata. A quick 
Google search yields there are EXIF tags called 
GPSDestLatitude/GPSDestLongitude, or GPSDestBearing, which can store this 
information.

Of course, an external GPS tagger knows my location, but does not know the 
direction at which the camera points when I take a photo. So a great feature 
would be to be able to open the photo in the geo editor (map) to see where it 
was taken, and then click into the map to define the direction at which the 
photo was taken.

Are there already plans to implement this feature?

Martin