[Qgis-user] QGis noobie needs help with importing Geotaging photos

[hugh]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:17:00 +0200
Micha Silver <micha at arava.co.il> wrote:

> On 11/17/2012 04:08 AM, h wrote:Hi,
> I'm a bit of a noobie to QGis, so please be gentle when explaining the
> obvious!!
> 
> I am wanting to display geotagged photos in QGis (1.8.0-Lisboa running
> on Open Suse)
> I have found the web site:
> 	http://hub.qgis.org/projects/geotagphotos/wiki
> but cannot get the plugin to appear in the plugins / Fetch Python
> Plugins dialog box.
> 
> What is the plugin called?
> What repository is it in?
> Is it still available from a repository?
> 
> Can someone please step me through the process of installing
> software / plugins to import geotagged photos into QGis?
> 
> The plugin was called photo2shape. I also didn't have much success
> with it, so instead I do the following, manually: I use exiftool to
> grab the required tags from the photos. At least GPSLatitude,
> GPSLongitude, and Filename. I run this in a loop to create a comma
> separated text file with each photo represented by one line.
> 
> Now I use the Delimited Text plugin to create a point shapefile of
> the photo locations. In the attribute table I will have the actual
> filename of each photo.
> 
> Next define an Action on this new shapefile (Layer properties
> windows->Action tab) which will open the photo in your image viewer.
> You can see detailed instructions on setting up an action in the QGIS
> documentation:
> http://docs.qgis.org/html/en/user_manual/working_with_vector/vector_properties.html#actions-tab
> The action will be composed of the viewer binary + full path to the
> photo.
> 
> After getting that setup, a right click on each point will bring the
> info windows with the option to run the action.
> 
> HTH,
> Micha

Hi Micha,
Thanks for sharing how you do this.
It all seems clear to me.  I will give it go.
Thanks again,
H


> 
> (I use the exif for my own qt applications, so am reasonable
> familiar with it.  It is the qgis python bit that eludes me!)
> 
> With thanks,
> H
> 
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