[KPhotoAlbum] geotagging alters image file?

[Miika Turkia]

On 19 Jul 2014, at 10:36, Tobias Leupold <tobias.leupold at web.de> wrote:

>> I noticed that the exif headers of the geotagged images now include the
>> coordinates. Isn't it possible to save the results of geotagging either in
>> index.xml or a version of exif.db? I have always liked that kphotoalbum does
>> not touch the original image files.
> 
> Why would you not want to store the coordinates inside the files? There's a 
> dedicated EXIF header for that! Either that photo has been taken there or not 
> ;-)

Design principle of KPA was not to alter images, and I really like that principle. A loss of images is less likely to happen that way.
> 
> Anyways, the tagging itself is AFAIK not done by KPA itself, but by the 
> geolocation kipi-plugin.

The kipi plugins are independent of KPA and they do alter images. I do not think that we can really affect how they work.

miika