I actually wanted to make this an entry in "Brainstorm", but that seems completely focused on Fremantle/Harmattan/...

So:

What I'd like to have is a nice Diablo-GUI for tagging and geotagging photos taken from my digital camera. (I simply swap SD-cards to access them.) Right now I do all the tagging from the command line, but command line being as it is, I do it only rarely

The software should let me write latitude/longitude (in the xx.xxx/yy.yyy-format), a title plus tags to JPEG files in a way that will be recognized and outomatically used by both flickr and ovi. Special consideration should be given to issues that come with the use of non-ASCII character sets... I know EXIF forbids non-ASCII in a lot of data field, some software ignores that and the result is an incredible mess. Stick to the standards here.


Optionally, what could be done:

• Batch processing: Select muliple images and perform the same operation on same (same tags, same lat/lon)
• Select latitude/longitude from a detailed map with a pointer
• Take lat/lon from internal GPS or bluetooth GPS device
• Access images from the cam without physically removing SD card

I'm not aware of any GNU/linux application that does all of this on the desktop, let alone one that could easily be ported to Diablo. But I could be wrong and maybe there's a classic out there readily packaged and waiting to be re-compiled.

If not, a brand new Maemo application would be cool - provided it's written in a way that will let me compile and run in on my Gnome desktop, as well. (Vagalume was a shining example of this experience.)

Fremantle seems to be able to do some of this (although I'm not sure about the geotagging with coordinates other than the ones currently provided by the built-in GPS). - Is the Fremantle app open source and can it be backported?

I think we will know in a few weeks if the Fremantle Imageviewer UI will be open source or not.

For tagging photos on my laptop, I use kPhotoAlbum. It has the option for regular tags like People, Places, Keywords etc. It also has the option to add your own custom tags, so you could add in a Latitude/Longitude tag if you wanted.


* Batch processing: Select muliple images and perform the same operation on same (same tags, same lat/lon)
Can be done on kPhotoAlbum

The other options aren't possible in the program (at least right now). I'm not sure what is required to port it, or if its possible, but its I find it to be a great photo tagging program.