[Digikam-users] Geocoding and digiKam

[Dmitri Popov]

Thanks for your detailed reply, Gilles! I'll look into it.

Best,
Dmitri

On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Gilles Caulier
<caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Dimitri,
>
> Few month ago an user report to bugzilla that digiKam must take a care about
> the precision of GPS info embedded in Exif. Typically, the GPS device need
> to be well synchronized with the satellite to have enough precision of
> position measurement. This prevent wrong map position of image when
> precision is not enough.
>
> This is debated in this file : https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326406
>
> Look also if this file is relevant of your problem :
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353458
>
> So there is another Exif GPS tags to add to said to digiKam to handle the
> information.
>
> Look in image metadata if you don't miss the references of lat and long info
> :
>
> Exif.GPSInfo.GPSLatitudeRef
>
>
> Exif.GPSInfo.GPSLongitudeRef
>
>
>
> Look in code, it's not too complex to understand :
>
> https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/graphics/digikam/repository/revisions/master/entry/libs/dmetadata/metaengine_gps.cpp
>
> If these 2 tags are not present, the GPS info is not decoded.
>
> Gilles
>
>
>
>
> 2016-03-06 11:55 GMT+01:00 Dmitri Popov <lazylegs at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Sometimes I use ExifTool to geotag photos. The geotagging command I
>> use looks something like this:
>>
>> exiftool -overwrite_original -GPSLongitude=52.5487429714954
>> -GPSLatitude=-1.81602098644987 .
>>
>> Both Flickr and Gwenview handle and display geotags correctly.
>> However, digiKam doesn't seem to recognize geotags, so the photos are
>> displayed as if they have no geographical coordinates in their
>> metadata. Any ideas what causes the problem and how to fix it?
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Best,
>> Dmitri
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