Changes between Version 18 and Version 19 of BluePrintGISImportExport

Timestamp:

06/26/09 12:26:30 (16 years ago)

Author:

Fran Boon

Comment:

OSS Tools survey

BluePrintGISImportExport

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 = Blueprint for GIS Import/Export =
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+=== XML ===
 We need to be able to Import & Export these XML formats to/from the Database:
  * GeoRSS (URL fetch/publish)
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  * http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/09/10/py.html
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+=== Geotagged Photos ===
 We should also be able to import Geotagged Photos & have these display on the Map.
 
 Feature Metadata already includes an Image - so the work needed is just in terms of reading the Lat/Lon from the Tag & providing a UI:
  * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotag#JPEG_photos
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+Most developed OSS tools are:
+ * [http://www.exiv2.org Exiv2] - C++ with [http://tilloy.net/dev/pyexiv2/ pyexiv2] binding (still experimental) 
+ * [http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool ExifTool] - Perl (extra dependencies & needs to be run as system call)
+ * Comparison: http://www.picurl.org/development/wiki/Exiv2vsExifTool
+Python works-in-progress here:
+ * http://sourceforge.net/projects/exif-py/?abmode=1
+ * http://www.ivan-herman.net/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/WorkRelated/SemanticWeb/xmpextract.html XMP-only
+ * http://code.google.com/p/python-xmp-toolkit/ XMP-only
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