[Qgis-developer] Geophoto management

[Paolo Cavallini]

Oh, right, good suggestion, thanks Nathan. Moreover, it can also create
thumbnails:
http://www.gdal.org/frmt_jpeg.html
So the work from QGIS side seems considerably reduced.
In the far past, reading EXIF was a bit a black magic, beacuse vendors
implemented it with lots of variations, thus many exif readers failed
often: does anybody have recent experience, is GDAL driver working in
most or all cases?
Thanks again.

Il 04/07/2016 07:58, Nathan Woodrow ha scritto:
> GDAL also seems to support reading EXIF information if we want to use
> that to avoid any extra libraries.
> 
> On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 3:51 PM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it
> <mailto:cavallini at faunalia.it>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi all,
>     a frequent request from user is a better management of geotagged photos.
>     What most users expect is to:
>     1. be able to load geotagged photos
>     2. display the locations
>     3. display the photo clicking on the location
>     * possibly also to show a miniature.
>     Currently we have:
>     * an old and relatively complex C++ plugin, much more powerful than
>     this, and thus overkill for such a simple task
>     * the external plugin photo2shape, that only do #1 and #2, has issues
>     with py libraries, and leaves photos in an external path
>     * a plugin that helps georeferencing photos.
>     My suggestion would be to modify photo2shape to save on a
>     spatialite/geopackage db:
>     * the photos
>     * their locations
>     * the line joining consecutive points
>     * the photos themselves
>     * a form that will display the photo on click.
>     Such a plugin would be IMHO a good candidate for inclusion in core.
>     Is anyone working on something similar? Better ideas?
>     All the best.
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