Please write your suggestions for the next ImportPhotos version!

[Mariosmsk]

[bill-mca]

Hey, thanks a lot for developing this tool! it's really useful.

I suggest modifying the default import style so that it can display the image as an html popup. Also, modify the attribute form of the default style so that you can see the associated image when you click the photo with the identify tool.

Otherwise, I was going to suggest an alternate style: an arrow with its direction determined by a 'heading' property from the photo metadata. However, as far as I can tell, there is no such metadata field. It'd be awesome for use with drones so that you could easily see which direction the drone was looking when it snapped the image.

Thanks again. let me know if you want me to upload a qml.

[bill-mca]

https://gist.github.com/w-mcalister/2de9ccea66a9e1cd6f308df7e06788d0

[drugstorer-172]

I just tested ImportPhotos. It works perfect! Thanks for your work!! :-)

Using the results, I recognized two missing features.

All pictures are shown in landscape. For portrait you have always to turn them first to see them in a correct view.
Proposal: Show them in correct view directly as they have been taken.

When using the arrows to click through all pictures of a folder pictures are shown sorted by name. Normaly this should be ok. In my case georeferencing e.g. historic walls the pictures jump from one end of map to the other as they are named.
Proposal: Here it would be very helpful to have a sort option showing them either by date or time, so you can follow the wall with the pictures taken by date and/or time. With this feature one can follow e.g., by date the history of photos taken during the years from the same place or walls. And with the feature time, one can follow the lines walked during time.

That would be great :-)

Gerhard

[martinlindhe]

All pictures are shown in landscape. For portrait you have always to turn them first to see them in a correct view. Proposal: Show them in correct view directly as they have been taken.

+1 (just came here to report this issue)

also thanks for making this plugin!!!

[tastrax]

Excellent plugin - Another great feature would be the ability to 'play' the images one after the other without having to click the > arrow. Maybe with forward and back and two speeds

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[jekhor]

Don't use groups when adding of photo layers, it is useless.

[HusseinKabbout]

@Mariosmsk When do you think will you create a new release?

[Marwe]

I have some improvements:

• support TIF
• Have a configurable selection of exif attributes (I have some special ones I am interested in from drone images and manufacturers like DJI have some own ones and misspelling issues), best would be a config file and dialog to select from existing ones (open one example photo, list attributes)

Issues, might look into it myself or open a ticket

• the dialog does not work properly without opening the file selection dialog, since there is some (unneccessary?) magic/checks in the code (extension check)

  File "$HOME/.local/share/QGIS/QGIS3/profiles/default/python/plugins/ImportPhotos/ImportPhotos.py", line 388, in ok
    self.import_photos(self.directoryPhotos, self.outputPath, self.load_style, showMessageHide)
  File "$HOME/.local/share/QGIS/QGIS3/profiles/default/python/plugins/ImportPhotos/ImportPhotos.py", line 456, in import_photos
    self.extension = self.extension_switch[self.extension]
KeyError: '.apefil'

[Mariosmsk]

Hi @Marwe, thanks for your suggested improvements. Please try with the latest version ImportPhotos v.3.0.2

[FlyingEagle]

Hi,

I use your plugin "ImportPhotos", and I recognized that some Images are not rotated well. Are you able to add Exif-Orientation in the fields list? I am not able to add myself

More: https://sirv.com/help/articles/rotate-photos-to-be-upright/

Regards

[Ilgiz88]

1. Please make it possible to copy the image to the clipboard (ctrl+c or the button on the form).
2. To save the rotation settings of the drawing from the form.
3. To always be on top of the main QGIS window.

[underworlddead]

Hello I have a suggestion ( I can try to implement this myself if it's possible)

Sort or rename photos based on their proximity to a feature in another layer. I've been doing this manually for a while. I use a distance Matrix to find the closest feature in a target layer to the photos. With this information, we can associate the Photos with a feature from a target layer. Now we can run a simple python script that can rename, move and or copy the photos. Thus, automatically sorting the Photos in the directory by their proximity to points from a target layer.

This has saved me lot of time in large projects with 1000s of Photos because often someone has to manually sort the pictures and a lot of colleagues don't use gis.

PS: I'm not a QGIS pro! There could be a much easier or obvious solution for sorting the photos that I am unaware of, if so please excuse my ignorance. Thanks for reading and this great plugin!

[FlyingEagle]

Instead of the message "xx imported from yy files" it would be nice to have a layer (simple data table) that stores the not imported images to check what is wrong with the coordinates.

[mattcalavera]

Hi! It will be very useful to extract FlightYawDegree or GimbalYawDegree data to use it to show on the map not only where the photo was taken but also where the cam was aiming (or looking) (e.g. by drawing two lines in the direction of Gimbal Yaw angle respect to north extracted). It will be also useful to extract GimbalPitchDegree metadata to graphical distinguish between nadiral photo (GimbalPitchDegree = -90) and others