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Feature request: Location data from Geonames

Open Clicketyclick opened this issue 4 years ago • 4 comments

Adding nearest known location using data from Geonames

Clicketyclick avatar Aug 13 '21 11:08 Clicketyclick

The reverse geo coding could be done using nominatim server: "https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/reverse?lat="+item.lat+"&lon="+item.lon+"&format=json";

I am not sure which exif field should be used for that purpose.

jmlich avatar Aug 13 '21 12:08 jmlich

sorry, layman speak - does this mean being able to search for locations in the map interface?

SiriuslyCold avatar Aug 15 '21 01:08 SiriuslyCold

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_geocoding

Reverse geocoding is the process of converting a location as described by geographic coordinates to a human-readable address or place name

jmlich avatar Aug 15 '21 05:08 jmlich

ok, thanks.

I guess I need to put in a request a new feature

SiriuslyCold avatar Aug 15 '21 06:08 SiriuslyCold