[Digikam-users] date of panoramas

[Alan Pater]

Note that there are specific XMP properties for panorama images.

exiv2 0.25 supports these properties: http://www.exiv2.org/tags-xmp-GPano.html

Specification is here: https://developers.google.com/photo-sphere/metadata/

On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Mark Alford <alford at wuphys.wustl.edu> wrote:
> Gilles,
>
> I see that the assigning of dates to panoramas has been posted as a bug
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342687
> This is something I am also experiencing as a problem in digikam 4.12.0
> (Fedora 22).
>
> Here is the exiv2 data for a panorama that I just created:
>
> Exif.Image.DateTime                          Ascii      20  2015:08:09 19:58:23
> Exif.Photo.DateTimeOriginal                  Ascii      20  2015:08:09 19:58:23
> Exif.Photo.DateTimeDigitized                 Ascii      20  2015:07:21 10:16:45
> Exif.Image.PreviewDateTime                   Ascii      20  2015:08:09 19:58:23
> Iptc.Application2.DateCreated                Date        8  2015-08-09
> Iptc.Application2.DigitizationDate           Date        8  2015-07-21
> Xmp.xmp.CreateDate                           XmpText    19  2015-08-09T19:58:23
> Xmp.xmp.MetadataDate                         XmpText    19  2015-08-09T19:58:23
> Xmp.xmp.ModifyDate                           XmpText    19  2015-08-09T19:58:23
> Xmp.tiff.DateTime                            XmpText    19  2015-08-09T19:58:23
> Xmp.exif.DateTimeOriginal                    XmpText    19  2015:08:09 19:58:23
> Xmp.exif.DateTimeDigitized                   XmpText    19  2015-07-21T10:16:45
> Xmp.photoshop.DateCreated                    XmpText    19  2015-08-09T19:58:23
>
> You see that for a few fields it remembers the original date
> 2015:07:21, but for most of the fields, including the ones that digikam
> uses to determine the date of the image, it uses the date of creation
> of the panorama, 2015-08-09, which is inconvenient for the user.