What happened to GeoSetter?

Mees Dekker · July 24, 2016, 09:20:01 PM

Until a couple of days ago, Geosetter worked like a charm and very fast.

But all of a sudden, for no apparent reason, it does not show the map any longer and also is very slow to write GPS data to my files (at least 20 times slower).

Does anybody have the same experience and if so: is there any solution known?

hluxem · July 25, 2016, 05:12:28 AM

Just started Geosetter and I have the same problem with the map. The map is not shown anymore, a message "The Map can't be found at: http://www.friedemann-schmidt.com/geosetter/gmap21.html" is shown.
Not sure about the speed, I usually write back a folder with many images and do something different. Just tried one image and that seems to work fine.

Heiner

Mario · July 25, 2016, 07:58:16 AM

It seems as if the server http://www.friedemann-schmidt.com/ is off-line.

thrinn · July 25, 2016, 10:10:43 AM

Works for me.
Alas, my Preferences for the map are set to http://www.geosetter.de/map_google.html. No reference to http://www.friedemann-schmidt.com/ I could find. I don't know when this setting was changed (the help file shows the path you encountered). But maybe it works for you, too.

Mario · July 25, 2016, 10:46:31 AM

Mapping support becomes harder all the time

OpenLayers, the cross-platform JavaScript library for geocoding and all kinds of cool things has dropped support for Google Maps in their current version 3 release. Apparently the developers were fed up with Google's ever-changing programming interfaces and it become to hard to keep up.

IMatch 5 uses still OpenLayers 2, with Google Mapping support. But when Google changes their old APIS again, it may cease to function. OpenLayers 2 is no longer supported - which is the reason why IMatch Anywhere^TM uses OpenLayers 3.

IMatch Anywhere^TM uses the much faster OpenLayers 3 interface, but without Google Map support (I support Open Street Map, Bing, MapQuest). For Google Maps I would have to support a complete 2nd code path and users will have most likely get their own Google Map key (impossible for me to pay for your map usage).

As I've just learned, MapQuest has stopped support for tile access for non-paying customers

, which means that OpenLayers no longer supports it. This means we have OpenStreetMap and Bing. Maybe DigiGlobe, I have to look into this.

If IMatch Anywhere^TM is successful (aka it makes me some money to fuel the future development) I will look into Google Maps support for IMatch WebViewer^TM. And since IMatch Anywhere is a public programming interface for IMatch and IMatch WebViewer comes as source code (HTML and JavaScript) everybody can extend it to support other mapping modes or whatever. Use it in Blogs like WordPress...so many things now possible.

Mees Dekker · July 25, 2016, 12:07:19 PM

Quote from: thrinn on July 25, 2016, 10:10:43 AM
Works for me.
Alas, my Preferences for the map are set to http://www.geosetter.de/map_google.html. No reference to http://www.friedemann-schmidt.com/ I could find. I don't know when this setting was changed (the help file shows the path you encountered). But maybe it works for you, too.

Google Maps works for me now too.

Aubrey · August 08, 2016, 12:18:19 PM

Mees,
I used to go through GpiSync (I think that was the name). I've given all this up and now I have a much faster and more efficient routine.
My work flow is as follows (I use a Samsung Android phone).
Load GPSLogger app. Set the app up to send results (by wireless to Google drive). So my GPS data gets uploaded next time I am in a wireless location.
1. When wanting to geolocate images, select "location" on phone (I don't leave it on all the time as it's a heavy user of battery) and start GPS logger. You can stop and start it without issues.

At home:
2. Download images from card.
3. Go to Google drive (I have a shortcut on my browser) and download zip file, open this file and extract the gpx file and add it to the folder where you have your images. Check the date of the file, the file name is in the format 0b0074c7_YYYYMMDD.gpx
4. Select files you want to geoposition (this is the cool part of doing it through IMatch, it does not have to be a complete folder

)
4. Use IMatch, Tools, Exif command processor.
5. Change the last digits when you open the Exif command processor to reflect the gpx file.
6. Hit run
7. You're done!

Attached is a screen dump of the commands I use and an image of the file viewer.

Aubrey.

PS: I use local time in my camera. Camera does need to be synchronized to a time frame!

I have made corrections to this. Please see
https://www.photools.com/community/index.php?topic=5797.0
For most up-to-date methodology.

I have also removed one of the jpg's from this post as it was giving wrong information.

Mario · August 08, 2016, 01:15:20 PM

Neat. Thanks for sharing.

Maybe you could wrap that into a short know-how article for the Knowledge Base here in the community?

https://www.photools.com/community/index.php?board=44.0

This way other users can learn from your experience.

pajaro · September 10, 2016, 07:06:10 PM

For those of you who use GeoSetter and have problems with the map: I came across this thread:

http://www.geosetter.de/mantis/view.php?id=1325

It explains how to change the address of the map file: start GeoSetter, go to File-Settings-Maps and use this link: http://www.geosetter.de/map_google.html as Map File. I did that - GeoSetter works as before.

Pavel.

Carlo Didier · November 15, 2016, 02:13:13 PM

Aubrey, my GPS workflow is even more automated.
I also use a GPS logging app on my Android phone. On my return from a shoot, I just copy the GPX file(s) to a certain folder on my PC.
Then I read the images from my cards with Breeze Downloader Pro which I configured to get the GPS information from the GPX files on the above folder to automatically geotag my images.