On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:17:00 +0200 Micha Silver <[email protected]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > This mail was received via Mail-SeCure System. > > > > _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
