[Marble-bugs] [Bug 299187] New: Photo plugins restricts results to photos added to flickr in the last 12 hours

[Dennis Nienhüser]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299187

            Bug ID: 299187
          Severity: normal
           Version: unspecified
          Priority: NOR
          Assignee: marble-bugs at kde.org
           Summary: Photo plugins restricts results to photos added to
                    flickr in the last 12 hours
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: Linux
          Reporter: earthwings at gentoo.org
          Hardware: Other
            Status: NEW
         Component: general
           Product: marble

The photo plugin queries photos from flickr and shows them on the map. With the
API parameters currently supplied, the following restriction [1] applies to the
result: 
"Geo queries require some sort of limiting agent in order to prevent the
database from crying. This is basically like the check against "parameterless
searches" for queries without a geo component. 
A tag, for instance, is considered a limiting agent as are user defined
min_date_taken and min_date_upload parameters — If no limiting factor is passed
we return only photos added in the last 12 hours (though we may extend the
limit in the future)."

In practice this means that when zooming in to ~ city level or higher, most
times no photos show up any more - even though flickr would provide many for
the area.

The 12 hour check can be gamed by restricting the returned photos to all
available licenses (append "&license=1,2,3,4,5,6,7" to the http call), but
that's not a sane behavior in general.

Unless someone has a better idea, I'd suggest to check the size of the bounding
box and lift the 12 hour restriction in the http call for higher zoom levels
(small bounding box). This would mean that for higher zoom levels only new
flickr photos show up and for city level and higher all photos of the given
area.

[1] http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.photos.search.html


Reproducible: Always

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