[Qgis-developer] Geophoto management

[Nathan Woodrow]

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>
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.
> --
> Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
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