[josm-dev] Picture KML support ?

[Matija Nalis]

Would it be possible to extend JOSM to be able to load pictures from KML ?
(via AgPifoJ plugin or in the core).

Like the Potlatch flash editor can - it loads KML in the following format:

<Document>
	<Placemark id="Photo0">
		<description>
			<![CDATA[<a href="http://photos.openstreetphoto.org/tijs/dataset/testset/test1/DSC00161.JPG">
				<img src="http://thumbs.openstreetphoto.org/tijs/dataset/testset/test1/DSC00161.JPG" alt=""/></a>]]>
		</description>
		<name></name>
		<Icon>
			<href>http://thumbs.openstreetphoto.org/tijs/dataset/testset/test1/DSC00161.JPG</href>
		</Icon>
		<Point>
			<coordinates>5.37255650003,51.7343925</coordinates>
		</Point>
	</Placemark>

	<Placemark id="Photo1">
	[...]


and then shows image placeholders at specified coordinates, and when you
click on them, shows you the thumbnail and/or full picture (from URL encoded
in KML file)...

Such a photo KML files are produced by various tools, for example:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetView
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetPhoto

IMO, that would be a great addition.

Currently, I've written a small perl script [1] which downloads and geotags
all the pictures specified in KML, so those can then be loaded in AgPifoJ
plugin; but that is rather suboptimal, as one usually only looks on small
subset of pictures.


[1] http://linux.voyager.hr/osm/openstreetview_dl.txt

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