GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 305775
Please add support for adding GPS EXIF location to images
Last modified: 2018-07-12 00:11:56 UTC
Distribution/Version: Debian The current f-spot program have no way to edit the GPS EXIF data of an image. It would be great if it allowed me to specify latitude/longitude or perhaps even a map of some kind allowing me to point at the location the image was taken from.
This is very related to bug 170314 which is for displaying this same meta data.
I've found so few examples of images that actually have this metadata I'm not sure there is much demand for adding features that support it.
The problem I face at the moment is that there is no convenient way to add this data. No wonder so few examples are available. I have a few example systems to make a photo album with a map assosiated with it, but as it is very painful to add GPS coordinates to the images, it is not very useful at the moment. :(
Related comments in Bug #168323 --- It would also be very cool if f-spot could match the GPS data which may be present in exif tags with an extant list of country and/or state boundries to auto-tag photos. Even though few cameras have GPS sensors built in, it is becoming more common to add GPS tags in the manner described in this O'Reilly article: http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/06/15/gps_photo.html Tools to do this exist on Linux, as well as Wiindows and OS X. As an alternative to a database of boundries (think something akin to /usr/share/misc/flowers ), a user could associate a given Lat/Long datum and a radius (in m, Km, whatever) with each Place tag and f- spot could auto-tag photos whose exif GPS metadata placed it within that area defined for that tag.
Have a look at the following screenshot from digikam. http://www.digikam.org/?q=node/104
see also http://squeedlyspooch.com/blog/archives/002069.html Adding editing gps info will be a weekend hack for f-spot one of these days
I had a dream ... ;) ... and I made some mockups: http://hagemaenner.de/stuff/index.php?fpp=10&did=2 You can get nice vector map data form the xrmap project: http://frmas.free.fr/li_1.htm
*** Bug 402808 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Google has recently extended Picasa Web Albums with the ability to specify where the photo has been taken. GPS data is either read from EXIF tags or specified manually using Google Maps. I think integrating F-Spot with Google Maps would be a good thing. The only problem seem to be the XPCOM (JavaScript?) - Mono bridge.
Sergey (comment #9), I noticed the new picasaweb feature and will implement that soon in the google-sharp bindings. Then we could change the f-spot code so existing geotags are exported. But support for geotags in Picasaweb does _not_ means it will be easy to have geotagging and maps drawing inside f-spot...
Perhaps the map available from http://www.openstreetmap.org/ can be used as the background map to select GPS location for a photo?
(In reply to comment #10) > But support for geotags in Picasaweb does _not_ means it will be easy to have > geotagging and maps drawing inside f-spot... > This may be useful - http://libgmail.sourceforge.net/googlemaps.html I didn't happen to find any implementations of Google Maps Widgets or something. BDeveloping, say, a GtkGoogleMap widget seems to be quite useful for both F-spot and other projects.
*** Bug 553370 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Hi guys what's the latest status ? - I'm coming from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/f-spot/+bug/459870
F-Spot has moved to https://github.com/f-spot/f-spot/issues If this Bugzilla ticket is still valid in a recent version of F-Spot, please feel free to post this topic as a ticket in the F-Spot project on GitHub. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping as we are planning to shut down GNOME Bugzilla in favor of GNOME Gitlab.