The map module has stumped me. I don’t see a lot of videos or pixls.us discussions.
I don’t necessarily need “geotagged” images. My end goal, I think, is to use the map module for visual assistance to help with selecting images to help me apply “real tags”.
When I remember to link my camera to my phone, it records GPS coordinates. Otherwise, I’ve been able to manually drag images from the filmstrip onto the map to give them GPS coordinates. This is generally not a fun process for various reasons.
The filmstrip is just irritating. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve done an operation on the wrong images. Related topic here. AFAIK, this is the only module where you have to ALT+click to select an image to select it instead of just clicking on it. This has messed me up a lot of times, basically, having the wrong images selected. What is the action assigned to “click” that you can’t use it to select???
The next issue is “locations” on the right side. See screenshot below. My goal is to be able to select all images that have GPS coordinates within the boundaries of “Utah”. I followed this, but I’m stumped how to move forward. I have existing “geotag” “locations” for the boundaries of “Colorado” and “Nevada”. I used “find location” to get “Utah”. But in “locations”, it wants to add “Utah” as a sub-location within Colorado or Nevada. Neither are geographically correct. I can’t figure out how to create the “Utah” location as a stand-alone location. There doesn’t appear to be a way to un-select “Colorado” or “Nevada”.
Related … on the left side, in the collections module, there’s a filter for the geotags. If you mess up the previous step, you end up with a hierarchy that doesn’t make sense. “Utah” is not in “Nevada”. In the “tagging” module, you can drag/drop tags to re-do the hierarchy. That doesn’t seem possible within “geotagging”. I messed up when I created “Colorado” (“Colorado” is not within “Nevada”, either). I ended up deleting “Colorado” and was able to re-create it correctly. But that is a clunky way to have to manage geotags. Under “locations”, the tooltip help says to use pipes to change the hierarchy, but that doesn’t work. If I edit “Utah”, it doesn’t have a pipe showing it under “Nevada”.
Feedback on the above issues? Are there other resources to use? Any other tips/tricks?
TBH this is the best way. I’ve become religious about tracking my own location when out shooting. I hate it when I forget and it rarely happens that i don’t turn it on now-a-days. It just makes things way easier and faster.
This sound annoying I agree. Have you opened an issue on github to begin investigating this? In not, you should
This is because you have Nevada selected in the “locations” module. If you want a new top level section that comes from the “find locations” module:
Make sure you have nothing selected in the “locations” module.
Enter and find your location using the “find location” module.
Back in the “location” module, make sure “shape” button (just left of the “new location” button) is set to “polygon” (default is circle).
In the “find location” module, select the location you want; you should see the red line on the map.
Back in the “locations” module, click “new location” and give it a name.
You should now have a location using the outline of the territory from the “find location” module. If you made a mistake and make a sub-location, right click the sub locaiton and delete it, then make sure nothing is selected and try the above again.
Yes if you remove the faulty names from the “locations” module, then they’ll disappear here too.
I just trired, I made a new location called “California San Francisco”, then edited that, and put a pipe between it, making it California | San Francisco and it made the hierarchy. He enter after you edit the location.
I’d agree it is not obvious how the modules interact, but once I got it, it was pretty straight forward.
For a while I’ve wanted a lua script that tags the geo tagged coordinates from an image and then uses the Open Street map API to look up the location, then add a tag, so I’d end up with Places > California > San Francisco as a tag hierarchy. But I haven’t made it happen yet
