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

[Michael G. Hansen]

Hi Martin,

On 07/27/2011 09:02 PM, Martin Burnicki wrote:
> 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?

It's on my list of things which should be added, but I'm not sure 
when... maybe you can open a wishlist bugreport so we can collect ideas ;-)

Michael