[gdal-dev] New OGR driver: Imageset

[Andreas Neumann]

 Hi Tamas,

 That would be interesting. So the user could specify a folder with 
 images and GDAL would create an OGR layer that would expose the photo 
 location? The OGR feature would have certain EXIF data exposed as 
 attributes?

 If you work on this, could you also expose other EXIF data, such as the 
 viewpoint coordinates, the image direction, the FOV or focal length, the 
 sensor size, etc. - this information could be used to create a field of 
 view angle of the picture.

 You can try this at http://www.geofoto.ch/geophotomap/index.svg where 
 you can click on a picture standpoint and the browser will display an 
 angle where the picture is looking at.

 I'd be interested in such a provider, as it would open a lot of 
 possibilities to display photo information in various applications.

 Are you aware of EXIFTOOL - the perl-script that allows getting and 
 setting image metadata, such as EXIF, IPTC, XMP, etc.? See 
 http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ - it is sort of the Swiss 
 Army Knife of photo metadata and one of the fewer apps that can also set 
 metadata - not just read.

 Andreas

 On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:51:14 +0200, Tamas Szekeres wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We're thinking about implementing a new OGR driver which would
> represent a set of images as a vector data source. The images are
> taken from any GPS compatible mobile device, and each picture would 
> be
> represented as a point feature, the positions would be extracted from
> the exif information. The file name and path would be provided as an
> attribute for each feature. This data source could then be used by
> higher level apps to provide symbols at the picture locations in the
> map and display the picture when the feature is selected. The driver
> would definitely use GDAL to extract information about the provided
> images.
>
> I'm not sure whether we already have some kind of alternative 
> solution
> to this, let me know if you know about any. Further ideas about this
> topic would also be helpful. 
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tamas

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