<div dir="ltr">Ah OK, sorry for the semantic mistake. I'm interested in things like GeoTiff which would allow to display some aerial photos or maps in the background.<br><br>Showing a photo of where the mapper has been is definitely something totally different and probably easier to implement. Just the GUI for it could be tricky.<br>
<br>- Chris -<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/8/19 Matthias Urlichs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:smurf@smurf.noris.de">smurf@smurf.noris.de</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
<br>
[ geotagged images ]<br>
<br>
Chris Browet:<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> All I really need is a function taking as input a GDAL supported file name<br>
> and as output a QPixmap and the lat/lon of its 4 corners.<br>
><br>
</div>Uh, what? I think we're talking at cross prposes here.<br>
<br>
A geotagged image is a camera picture (JPEG usually) which contains<br>
geospatial coordinates in its metadata (EXIF) to locate the place (and,<br>
if known, direction) where the picture was taken. When mapping, I<br>
use these images to show where I've been (street names, work to be<br>
done); after a vacation, tagges pictures uploaded to Panoramio show up<br>
in Google Earth.<br>
<br>
GDAL is a library to create / convert vector and bitmap files which show<br>
maps. GDAL images cover a range of coordinates (hence four coordinates<br>
of the corners). They're calculated from map data or aerial photography.<br>
<br>
Different ideas entirely.<br>
<br>
What we're talking about is the first idea, "geotagged images".<br>
I fail to see why you'd want to use GDAL for that.<br>
<br>
GDAL support would be cool, too, but for entirely different reasons<br>
(I could use a high-res scan of a map as a background; that would be<br>
very helpful for mapping, assuming the map's copyright doesn't forbid<br>
this).<br>
<br>
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