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Re: Image view with support for geotags
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 02 May '15

02 May '15

Sorry this reply is not threaded, I can only do threaded replies via my dial up line adn the modem is US at the momment. Anyway........... On Sat, 02 May 2015 12:40:41 Chris Samuel said, >Digikam will show you geolocation information for an image, when you are >looking at an image on the right hand side there's a vertical tab called >"Geolocation" and will overlay the image on a map (KDE Marble by default >butyou can switch to Google Maps if you so wish). I new about Digikam, I assumed though it was not full free software so I have used "geotag" instead, works well. It uses the browser Chromium to display Googleearth showing the location. Geotag can also do much more. >Don't forget you can also extract the coordinates from the image with the >ImageMagick "identify" utility at the command line too (though the format >looks a little arcane). >For example: >chris@quad:~/Pictures/Phone/GalaxyNexus/2014-12-08$ identify -verbose >2014-12-08T13\:16\:34.jpg | egrep 'GPSLong|GPSLat' > exif:GPSLatitude: 37/1, 48/1, 25488/1000 > exif:GPSLatitudeRef: S > exif:GPSLongitude: 145/1, 14/1, 7902/1000 > exif:GPSLongitudeRef: E >Best of luck! >Chris There's a cleaner way to do the above using "exiftags" zlinw@wolflianli:~/images$ exiftags 20090128_111751-043.jpg | grep itude exiftags: field count mismatch (NikonWhiteBalBias) Latitude: S 36° 27.7701' Longitude: E 146° 13.4310' Altitude: 242.00 m My main purpose for the post though was to try and identify a particular program which I KNOW does this. I can visualise the actual screen layout but dammed if I can remember its name. Geotag does a job much closer to what I really require though. It has been educational!. Lindsay

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Re: S5 Slide show works OK under Mozilla but not on Explorer
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 02 May '15

02 May '15

Many thanks for the replies, What I did was just put up a post saying Firefox was required. There was half dozen responses saying no problems, no one replied it was not acceptable. The slide show now has been up now for around 8 hours there have been more than 30 downloads and no one has said anything, so it must be OK. My experience on such things is that people will complain if theres a problem but most will say nothing if its OK, ie one needs to consider it a broadcast situation. If feedback is required the audience will have to be pressed in some way. A classic method widely used particularly in broadcast radio is to broadcast a delibrate mistake. I have used this in the past under similiar situations, works perfectly. Lindsay

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S5 Slide show works OK under Mozilla but not on Explorer
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 01 May '15

01 May '15

Hi all, I am putting together a slide show of a large engineering project. S5 is the framework being used "http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/". The slide works great under Firefox, but its quite unexecptable under Microsofts Explorer. As the majority of the target audence would almost certainly be running windows, I appear to have a problem. THe way the slide show works is one changes frames with the page up/down keys. The frame is divided into three sections. The top section containing the comments to go with the image, the middle portion is the image, the lower section containing the overall title. Explorer takes no notice of this formating, not even using the selected fonts just displays a series of images with text in between them using whatever default font Exlploer has. Unfortunately although now running Linux for around 20 years I no nothing about web programming, or in this case xhtml and css what ever they are? :-(. Anything I can do? Help would very much be apreciated. Lindsay

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