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IDEA: right-click to display geotagged image on map
skwire:
Assuming the context menu only shows for jpegs (.jpg and .jpeg, i.e. we don't need to put the word "photo" or "picture" in the text to explain what we're geolocating),-gtoal (August 03, 2010, 08:22 AM)
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The context menu will show for all types of files since other image types besides jpegs can contain EXIF data.
then simply "Geolocate" would be enough.-gtoal (August 03, 2010, 08:22 AM)
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Sounds good to me.
I don't expect the right-click menu to know in advance whether an image has a geo tag or not, that's too fancy and I doubt it's even possible.-gtoal (August 03, 2010, 08:22 AM)
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Correct, I can't know in advance without scanning the file.
If there's no latlon info in the file, will you be putting up an error box, or just bringing up a map with no pointers placed? (If there's a choice I think I'd prefer an error box but whatever is easiest...)-gtoal (August 03, 2010, 08:22 AM)
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The app traps for the complete lack of EXIF data as well as the lack of GPS data within existing EXIF data. A typical message box is shown and the app exits after the user clicks okay. Cool?
skwire:
Give this a try, please: GeoLocate download
Let me know how it goes. Thanks.
gtoal:
Thanks! I'll try it at home tonight (don't have any geotagged images at work). Unfortunately I have to be out late this evening so I'll report back tomorrow morning.
Graham
gtoal:
Before I start my report, I need to explain that I missed the automatic notification that you had posted on the 3rd, and only spotted your post with the download this morning when I was checking up on the site to see what was new. My apologies, it must have looked rude not to reply for a couple of days after you released the program.
So... for me it worked great, exactly what I asked for and I'm delighted with the results. Unfortunately it's my wife who has the most geotagged photos and there was a problem when she tried it. Running the exe to register and create the uninstaller didn't work - both dialogues popped up fine and it appeared to work, but the uninstaller wasn't created and there was no handler added to the right-clicks. We're guessing it's because she's running 64bit Windows 7 - either a 64 bit issue or something to do with Windows 7 security and that she was trying to run it in a Program Files subdirectory. (I'll experiment more with that tomorrow when I can borrow her machine for more than a few minutes...)
That was the only failure; there were also two usability issues that are very minor, one of which I've already mentioned so I'll gloss over (which is that the option shows up for all files, not just image files. But I appreciate that writing something like the setup of photoshop where you get a chance to associate the program with various extensions is way overkill, although personally I'ld be happy it if were only associated with jpegs as those are the only ones I'm ever likely to tag); the other usability issue is very minor indeed: the report for an image with no exif info is "No exif data found in file. Aborting". To me it's more a null success than an error - saying 'Aborting' sounds like something is going wrong in a more serious way. I would just have it say "Image does not contain map coordinates".
So overall, very good piece of code. It'll come in very handy for me when I copy our family photo collection from my wife's machine to mine this weekend.
Thank you,
Graham
skwire:
Before I start my report, I need to explain that I missed the automatic notification that you had posted on the 3rd, and only spotted your post with the download this morning when I was checking up on the site to see what was new. My apologies, it must have looked rude not to reply for a couple of days after you released the program.-gtoal (August 05, 2010, 11:31 PM)
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No worries. I just figure folks get busy with other stuff. :D
So... for me it worked great, exactly what I asked for and I'm delighted with the results. Unfortunately it's my wife who has the most geotagged photos and there was a problem when she tried it. Running the exe to register and create the uninstaller didn't work - both dialogues popped up fine and it appeared to work, but the uninstaller wasn't created and there was no handler added to the right-clicks. We're guessing it's because she's running 64bit Windows 7 - either a 64 bit issue or something to do with Windows 7 security and that she was trying to run it in a Program Files subdirectory. (I'll experiment more with that tomorrow when I can borrow her machine for more than a few minutes...)-gtoal (August 05, 2010, 11:31 PM)
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Under Vista/Win7, users will almost certainly have to run this in administrator mode.
That was the only failure; there were also two usability issues that are very minor, one of which I've already mentioned so I'll gloss over (which is that the option shows up for all files, not just image files. But I appreciate that writing something like the setup of photoshop where you get a chance to associate the program with various extensions is way overkill, although personally I'ld be happy it if were only associated with jpegs as those are the only ones I'm ever likely to tag); the other usability issue is very minor indeed: the report for an image with no exif info is "No exif data found in file. Aborting". To me it's more a null success than an error - saying 'Aborting' sounds like something is going wrong in a more serious way. I would just have it say "Image does not contain map coordinates".-gtoal (August 05, 2010, 11:31 PM)
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I've changed the error messages to your suggestion. Please re-download.
So overall, very good piece of code. It'll come in very handy for me when I copy our family photo collection from my wife's machine to mine this weekend.
Thank you,-gtoal (August 05, 2010, 11:31 PM)
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You're welcome. This was unique one to write. I may package this up and release on my regular Skwire Empire site. Thanks for the idea.
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