Support for geographic direction in geo tags?

[Martin Burnicki]

Hi all,

I'm often using a small GPS geo tagger to record my current location when I'm
taking photos, and use DK's geotagger/correlator feature to read the exported
GPX file and assign the locations to the photos. This works great, and
another great DK feature is to be able to assign a location to a photo
manually, pointing to the location on a map.

In my opinion it it would often also be helpful to know the geographic
direction at which a photo was taken from the given location.

As far as I know some high end cameras with an integrated GPS receiver have
also a built-in compass, so they also "know" the direction at which a photo
is taken, and can save this information in the photo's metadata. A quick
Google search yields there are EXIF tags called
GPSDestLatitude/GPSDestLongitude, or GPSDestBearing, which can store this
information.

Of course, an external GPS tagger knows my location, but does not know the
direction at which the camera points when I take a photo. So a great feature
would be to be able to open the photo in the geo editor (map) to see where it
was taken, and then click into the map to define the direction at which the
photo was taken.

Are there already plans to implement this feature?

Martin
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[Michael G. Hansen]

Hi Martin,

On 07/27/2011 09:02 PM, Martin Burnicki wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm often using a small GPS geo tagger to record my current location when I'm
> taking photos, and use DK's geotagger/correlator feature to read the exported
> GPX file and assign the locations to the photos. This works great, and
> another great DK feature is to be able to assign a location to a photo
> manually, pointing to the location on a map.
>
> In my opinion it it would often also be helpful to know the geographic
> direction at which a photo was taken from the given location.
>
> As far as I know some high end cameras with an integrated GPS receiver have
> also a built-in compass, so they also "know" the direction at which a photo
> is taken, and can save this information in the photo's metadata. A quick
> Google search yields there are EXIF tags called
> GPSDestLatitude/GPSDestLongitude, or GPSDestBearing, which can store this
> information.
>
> Of course, an external GPS tagger knows my location, but does not know the
> direction at which the camera points when I take a photo. So a great feature
> would be to be able to open the photo in the geo editor (map) to see where it
> was taken, and then click into the map to define the direction at which the
> photo was taken.
>
> Are there already plans to implement this feature?

It's on my list of things which should be added, but I'm not sure
when... maybe you can open a wishlist bugreport so we can collect ideas ;-)

Michael
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[Martin Burnicki]

Hi Michael,

Michael G. Hansen wrote:
> On 07/27/2011 09:02 PM, Martin Burnicki wrote:
[...]

> > Of course, an external GPS tagger knows my location, but does not know
> > the direction at which the camera points when I take a photo. So a great
> > feature would be to be able to open the photo in the geo editor (map) to
> > see where it was taken, and then click into the map to define the
> > direction at which the photo was taken.
> >
> > Are there already plans to implement this feature?
>
> It's on my list of things which should be added, but I'm not sure
> when... maybe you can open a wishlist bugreport so we can collect ideas ;-)

Done:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278963

Thanks,
Martin
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