[digiKam-users] Generating a Place tag hierarchy

[Tom Cunningham]

Is there, or does DigiKam already have, a way to generate a Place tag hierarchy for a given photo that already contains reverse-geocoded information in the metadata?  Right now, I have two “parent” tags: People and Places.  Underneath these the sub-tags are mainly flat.  I use GeoSetter to geotag photos, and the corresponding reverse-geocoded information is simply thrown into the tags list which I then move under the Places tag.  So for example with reverse-geocoded data such as this:

 

[XMP-iptcCore]  CountryCode                     : IT                           

[XMP-iptcCore]  Location                        : Monterosso al Mare           

[XMP-iptcExt]   LocationShownCountryCode        : IT                           

[XMP-iptcExt]   LocationShownCountryName        : Italy                        

[XMP-iptcExt]   LocationShownProvinceState      : Liguria                      

[XMP-iptcExt]   LocationShownCity               : Monterosso al Mare           

 

I will end up with a tag hierarchy like this:

 

               Places

                              IT

                              Monterosso al Mare

                              Italy

                              Liguria

 

What I would like to have is something like this:

 

               Places

                              Countries

                                             Italy

                                                            Regions

                                                                           Liguria

                                                                                          Cities

                                                                                                         Monterosso al Mare

 

Which I assume in string form would be Places/Countries/Italy/Regions/Liguria/Cities/Monterosso al Mare.  I was wondering if there was a way to compare the individual tags with the XMP-iptcExt (or equivalent) data and categorize it in order to regenerate the location hierarchy.