[digiKam-users] high-level photo organization

[dmpop at tokyoma.de]

Hello,

> don't forget not all photos have exifs... Not only shared photos often don't have any, but often
> cameras are not on time and don't have gps.

Of course! I'm not saying that my approach suits all situations. Just offering my take on, um, not organizing photos. :-) And honestly, I'd rather spend time on adding EXIF metadata to the files that don't have it (again, digiKam can do that, too), rather than commit to a rigid directory structure.

Also, geotagging photos in digiKam is trivial. In fact, a simple shell script hooked to the Import tool can do coarse geotagging (for example, by city) or geocorrelation when you're importing JPEG and RAW file into digiKam.

> and then, you may not have digikam at hand when viewing them, if they are on a mobile medium at
> some holiday spot

Sounds like an edge case, but I see your point.

Kind regards,
Dmitri
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October 18, 2022 10:44 AM, jdd at dodin.org wrote:

> Le 18/10/2022 à 10:35, dmpop at tokyoma.de a écrit :
> 
>> Basically, the idea of having some sort of directory hierarchy is a vestige of times when finding
>> stuff was difficult.
> 
> don't forget not all photos have exifs... Not only shared photos often don't have any, but often
> cameras are not on time and don't have gps.
> 
> and then, you may not have digikam at hand when viewing them, if they are on a mobile medium at
> some holiday spot
> 
> jdd
> 
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