Re: [Gimp-user] [offtopic] image viewer which can show the location on a map

[Steve Kinney <admin pilobilus net>]

Brilliant!

The open source paradigm in action:

A says, I with I could do this thing...
B says, I bet you could use that thing...
C says, You mean like this?

Boom, done.

:D

On 10/13/2018 11:58 PM, Casey Connor wrote:
> Sorry, the ASCII-ification added a bunch of asterisks. Let me try that
> again:
>
> Here is a bash script that will take an image file and open a link in
> your browser to the openstreetmap.com site at that location.
>
> It requires that the "exiftool" utility be installed, which you can
> install e.g. on debian-based systems with:
>
> sudo apt-get install libimage-exiftool-perl
>
> Put the following in a file (preferably in a location that is in your
> executable path), call it something like "locatepic".
>
> #!/bin/bash
> sensible-browser `exiftool -c "%.6f" $1 | grep "GPS Position" | sed -r
> 's/^.*: ([0-9]*\.[0-9]*) ([NS]), ([0-9]*\.[0-9]*)
> ([EW])/http:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\/search?query=\1%20\2%2C%20\3%20\4/g'`
>
>
> (If your distribution doesn't have "sensible-browser" or you don't like
> which browser is used by it, you can use "xdg-open" in its place.)
>
> Run this command one time:
>
> chmod ug+x locatepic
>
> ...to make the file executable. Then run it with:
>
> locatepic /path/to/your/picture.jpg
>
> (Or if the executable is not in your path, use /path/to/locatepic
> /path/to/your/picture.jpg)
>
> There are various ways to integrate this into your desktop environment
> (e.g. so you can right-click on an image and choose "locatepic"), but I
> will leave that as an exercise to the reader. Some useful links:
>
> https://developer.gnome.org/integration-guide/stable/desktop-files.html.en
> https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/index.html
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4824590/propagate-all-arguments-in-a-bash-shell-script?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=google_rich_qa&utm_campaign=google_rich_qa
>
>
>
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