Bug 399113

Summary: Feature request: add reverse geocoding (country, state/province, city) to database
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: MarcP <iwannaberich>
Component: Geolocation-ReverseGeoCodingAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: caulier.gilles, iwannaberich, kde-bugzilla, KDE, metzpinguin
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 6.0.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Microsoft Windows   
OS: Microsoft Windows   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: Reverse-Geo.png

Description MarcP 2018-09-26 19:25:46 UTC 
This is more like a brainstorming idea than a true feature request.

I realized most of my tags contain either the people in the picture or the location where the picture was taken. 

The people part is already taken care of, but I thought it would be a cool feature to scan those pictures with existing geographical coordinates, do reverse geocoding, and create a location tree (country, province/state, and city) that you could browse. This information could ideally be stored in the database, and it would complement the already existing Map panel (which could be renamed simply as "Places".

I checked, and there's an openstreetmap API that basically provides this information: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim#Reverse_Geocoding
Comment 1 Maik Qualmann 2018-09-26 19:58:29 UTC 
Created attachment 115254 [details]
Reverse-Geo.png

You saw the reverse geolocation editor by digiKam? I think it's not exactly what you want, but you can also put the places tags in your images.

Maik
Comment 2 MarcP 2018-09-26 20:09:48 UTC 
Nice, I didn't know about that tool.

In my case, I think it would be interesting not to write the location as tags (that should be the choice of the user). Just a way to browse picture geographically. Like a map, but in text form.
Comment 3 caulier.gilles 2020-08-01 15:54:47 UTC 
digiKam 7.0.0 stable release is now published and now available as FlatPak:

https://www.digikam.org/news/2020-07-19-7.0.0_release_announcement/

We need a fresh feedback on this file using this version.

Thanks in advance

Gilles Caulier
Comment 4 sourcemaker 2022-10-16 14:27:25 UTC 
*** Bug 420621 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***