[KPhotoAlbum] geotagging alters image file?

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Στις 19/07/2014 07:28 πμ, ο/η Miika Turkia έγραψε:
> 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.
>>

I just made the same point to Tobias (in PM, because I did not notice
the list response).

>> 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.
> 

OK I will look a little in their mailing list to see if it makes sense
to ask about this.

Thank you for KPA

> miika
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