This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.darktable.org/2012/09/geotagging-in-darktable/
I have just recently posted to darktable-dev mailing list, but thought it might be helpful to add my mug of flat whiteās worth here also: !
I use the map view to geotag my images, and would find the ability to
save preset locations in āfind locationā valuable, in manner akin to
creating presets for darkroom modules.
Yes, using mobile phone GPS to create a GPX track file can work - I
have had some success using Android ap PhotoTrackr here but it can be hit and miss. More recently, only miss for me.
Replying to myself (doing a Gandalf? or merely pretentious? or just slightly cracked? ) ā¦
I use the map view to geotag my images, and would find the ability to
save preset locations in āfind locationā valuable, in manner akin to
creating presets for darkroom modules.
This is now reality in darktable 2.4.2 and works simply and well.
Yes, using mobile phone GPS to create a GPX track file can work - I
have had some success using Android ap PhotoTrackr here 1 but it can be hit and miss. More recently, only miss for me.
I have had one good āhitā recently. Moreover, with the GPX track file in the same folder as the images being imported, darktable automatically applied the track for me, without my needing to use the geotagging module in lighttable. Very impressive!
Iāve found the Android app OSMand to work quite well for recording my location while Iām shooting.
Try GPSLogger for Android. Itās open source and works very well. I geotag with Gotten Geography, which I really love, but it would be nice to do it from within DT.
Does somebody know whether is possible to disable the feature of assiging gps coordinates automatically? I use another programm (geosetter) to assign them because I get geonames etc. in the metadata too. But every time when I export from darktable it overwrites my coordinates from geosetter and that is a bit annoyingā¦
I would appreciate a way to manually assign geo tags without a gpx file, simply by pasting the coordinates like that: 51.045429314906514, 13.782628136060668
Ah I just realized it is actually easily done:
- go to map (top right next to lighttable | darktable)
- find location
- add image
I donāt understand thisā¦
If Iām not mistaken dt doesnāt assign automatically geotag, except in some import cases (command line) when a gpx file is found in the current folder.
Then, at export time, the user can uncheck geotags in export metadata configuration (moduleās preferences).
Could you describe what you do and what you get a bit more in detail ? You can share also metadata information (using exiv2) associated with your files.
Setting your camera to UTC is the only chance for long term sanity.
I have been doing this for 20 years and the only time there are any problems is when software tries to be clever and predict timezones or do bi-directional assumptions based on a hunch while using unix-epoch underneath ā¦ I am looking and screaming at you, gphoto2!