Photo blog: integration geo data (iptc data, location data, meta tags, node content)
Hi,
I'm starting a photo blog and I would like to have geo/location data in:
- The images (iptc)
- The drupal database
- The meta tags (geourl?)
- The node presentation (body)
Reasons:
- For search engine optimization
- For displaying additional information of an image
- For using the same images for all my needs (including stock photo sites)
- For (future) integration with web applications (like "Google Map based applications")
Therefore, in my current workflow (I think) I need to manually add geo/location data a few times:
- Add to image as iptc data, by using Geosetter (and Adobe Lightroom)
- Add to drupal db as geo/location data, by using location module
- Add to meta tags as global geourl, by using meta tags module
- Add to node as table data, by pasting data in the body field *
* For this last step I need a few sub steps:
1. Export iptc geo/location data from image to .txt by using a Lightroom export plugin
2. Copy and paste the data from the .txt file into a worksheet, by using Microsoft Excel
3. Copy and paste the data from the sheet in very specific html tables, by using Dreamweaver
4. Copy and paste the code of the html template into the node body, by using... Drupal! ;)
I guess this is not the best workflow possible :\
So all recommendations are welcome :D
Does anyone with a photo blog already have a complete workflow, which (easily) makes use of the same data over and over again?
Currently I'm using meta tag module and location module. I know CCK & View module can be helpful. And there might be some other related modules.
But I'm still looking for optimal integration...
Thnx,
Marc
Geo data = coordinates, city, country, etc
Hmm, to be more specific, with geo/location data I mean:
- Standard coordinates (lattitude, longitude)
- Flickr coordinates (or how do we call them?)
- Location, street, city, province, country, etc
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Some Related Thoughts:
The exif module will read image description and copyright info, it will also i think read geo information, but like you added in your comment i'm not exactly certain what format that is in when read, probably just text so its up to you.
exif module is quite different between D5 and D6, in D6 the exif module allows the population of CCK fields using something a bit like tokens, but i don't think these can be used to populate location fields of a content type(?), just display in their own fields.
The Integrated Metatags module can take cck fields (your description, location etc) and stick them into the html description tag
I currently use this little lot on a site which takes bulk uploads of jpegs (image import), it strips the iptc description out and displays it on the node, the node title is made up of the file name with some text appended. The limitations I can't find a way round at present is that exif module will not read the 'title' or 'keywords' data (these are iptc which i think extends from exif?) I would dearly love to get the keywords from each image and get them into a cck field
I too would like at some point to automatically read location info and if its present, either a lattitude/long or the name of a city etc then include a link to a map / mash it into the location module
so far ive drawn a blank on that, triggers/workflow/tokens???? or some php in the cck fields
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I know nothing of the exif module, but if as you say it stores the location info in fields, I would think you could use the http://drupal.org/project/rules module to copy that info into the location module fields for use with location/gmap.
Another option might be to skip location module alltogether and see if one of the map modules allows for specifying which fields contain the location data. http://drupal.org/project/mapstraction looks like it might work, but i've never tried it.
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