Re: [Gramps-devel] exif tags

[Emrys W. <emr...@ev...>]

Hey, don't look at me, I have more than enough on my plate!

Yes, the whole point would be to edit the exif data in the photo, not
store the data in gramps,
so that other programs like google earth and picasa that do useful
things with the exif data
can be used to display family media sensibly.

And being able to set place and time by associating with a gramps event
would actually help.
I spent about two days  doing this for 300 images outside gramps, with
lots of hand-hacked scripts.

Emrys

Benny Malengier wrote:
> Emrys,
>
> keep in mind that GRAMPS is not a photo management software though.
> I would not mind myself the ability to see the exif tags of pictures
> in GRAMPS, and allow those to be edited from there.
> >From a technical point of view, I would expect this to be displaytab
> connected to the media object, not storing the exif in the family
> tree, but in the photo instead.
> Please, for your first try at this, make it all optional, so only add
> this exif tab if exif library is present, ...
>
> If you plan more invasive changes to the media editor, then please:
> 1/ talk it through on the devel list first
> 2/ consider if some things you want to achieve are not better written
> as a plugin/tool, so as not to encumber the default GRAMPS interface
>
> Benny
>
> 2009/7/9 Emrys Williams <emr...@ev...>:
>   
>> I have used a separate program, exiftool, to put an original date tag on
>> all the scanned photos in my media library, so Picasa (for example)
>> sorts them all into orginal date order in its albums. Unfortunately,
>> Picasa makes mistakes before 1904, but we can't have everything. I've
>> also used picasa to add geotag data to many images. Handling it inside
>> gramps would be cool. For example, by adding geotag data by associating
>> a gramps place with a media reference. Or adding a date and geotag by
>> associating a gramps event with a media reference.
>>
>> A big downside is that neither dates nor geotag in exif allow for any
>> uncertainty. No date ranges, no vague places. I defined my own
>> uncertainty measure for dates which I store in the seconds field of the
>> exif tag.
>>
>> Emrys
>>
>>
>> Gerald Britton wrote:
>>     
>>> What is it and how would we use it?
>>>
>>> On 7/8/09, Rob Healey <rob...@gm...> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Dear Gramps Devel:
>>>>
>>>> I would like to be able to begin work on adding exif tags to the media and
>>>> media editors!  I believe that this will be an incredible feature for
>>>> gramps...
>>>>
>>>> I know that it might add another dependency to gramps, but I was easily able
>>>> to download it from the fedora repository with no trouble at all.  I do not
>>>> know if all repos for all distros will have it.  It is licensed under gnu
>>>> license version 2 and later.
>>>>
>>>> It is something that we could add into gramps if we wanted to.
>>>>
>>>> I know that I have a lot of open fires right now, so it might be a while in
>>>> coming, but I would like to shot for the 3.2.x/trunk!
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely Yours,
>>>> Rob G. Healey
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>       
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