[QGIS-Developer] New QEP: Kill evis

[Nyall Dawson]

On Mon, 18 May 2020 at 22:13, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:
> It would be nice to have an inbuilt workflow in QGIS where you can just open a folder full of images, view them as a time sequenced track, maybe with some nice Temporal Controller integration that lets you play the images back in sequence, panning the map along from photo to photo.

For clarification: evis doesn't do this (import photos). It just shows
photos linked to a table manually (i.e. the exact same behaviour as
the native "external resource" widget).

However, the processing "Import geotagged photos" algorithm DOES do
all this, except for the temporal configuration.

Nyall


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> Regards
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> Tim
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> On 18 May 2020, at 00:13, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Please see https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/176
> for a proposal to kill the unmaintained legacy evis plugin for QGIS
> 3.14.
>
> It's completely unmaintained and full of legacy code, with zero
> integration between the plugin and the rest of QGIS. If we kill it for
> 3.14 then it gives organisations time to adapt (and possibly develop a
> 3rd party plugin version if desired) prior to the next LTR release
> (3.16).
>
> There has been NO changes made to this plugin (aside from fixes to
> avoid breaking QGIS compilation) for over 10 years. In 2010 a bug fix
> was made to this plugin. In the following 10 years the ONLY changes
> have been compilation fixes.
>
> We've previously put out calls for interest in community members
> stepping up to maintain this plugin, with zero interest.
>
> Let's officially kill it and move on :)
>
> Nyall
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