What's new in GPicSync 1.31 Beta
Jan 30, 2014
- Addressing Geonames webservice access issue by using a username for the app
- Added option for users to use their own Geonames username in the configuration file (highly recommended)
- Added Geonames information message if the user don't use its username
- Upgraded embedded Exiftool to version 9.48
- switched development code to Github
- windows exe now compiled with python 2.7 and latest libs
New in GPicSync 1.30 (Jan 30, 2014)
- Windows issue 117: if you selected Geonames option, geocoding could stop for non-ascii characters. Geonames are now unicode within GPicSync but are now translated to nearest ascii translation when Exiftool is called (see issue 117 for raison why; waiting for two Python2 libs to update to Python3 for a full unicode command)
- Windows issue 116 : moved the configuration file to %ALLUSERSPROFILE% location (typically ProgrammData folder on Win7) so non-admin multi-users install can find the configuration (a pop-up appears now if it's not found at launch)
- Updated Exiftool to version 8.99
- Linux (from command-line/Source): Vsevolod Shorin contributed support for QR-code for time correction (you will need to install Zbar). Type "python gpicsync.py --help" for usage information
New in GPicSync 1.29 (Mar 12, 2012)
- added drop down timezone selection menu (thanks to Maciek Dems patch and the pytz lib)
- upgraded Exiftool to version 8.81
- added support for raw rw2 files
- Windows build created now on Win Seven 64b Python 2.6 32b (many libs changes)
New in GPicSync 1.28 (Jan 13, 2010)
- Fixed issue with Google Earth 5 where pictures appeared as blank in the new version of Google Earth
- Updated third party software Exiftool to version 7.74
- Included contributions from Tobias Domhan: iso naming of languages folders, fix to KMZ thumbnails, universal access to Google Earth on Linux
New in GPicSync 1.27 (Jan 13, 2010)
- Added preliminary support for Geonames in IPTC
- Will now write in EXIF/IPTC even if a minor warning is encountered by ExifTool
- kml output files are now unicode
- support for waypoints in GPX file (treated like trackpoints)
New in GPicSync 1.26 (Jan 13, 2010)
- Fixed a bug in the interpolation mode: in some cases some interpolated pictures wasn't geolocalized accurately (option especially useful if taking pictures while moving in a car or a plane).
- Improved/fixed GPX reading for certain files with "white spaces" in their latitude or longitude values
- Added support for negative altitude regions
- Added a GPicSync icon to the window icon
New in GPicSync 1.24 (Jan 13, 2010)
- Google Earth option: added the possibility to choose the picture's icons in the graphical interface (2 choices for now). By default the icons are now thumbnails of each picture with a slight rollover zoom. The second choice is the generic camera icon.
New in GPicSync 1.23 (Jan 13, 2010)
- Geonames bug fix (from version 1.22): when "adding geonames and geotadded" with "Geonames in EXIF keywords", the HTML summary was also added in IPTC caption. Also corrected a typo.
New in GPicSync 1.20 (Jan 13, 2010)
- Bug fixes release:
- Fixed some syncing problems with data crossing UTC=0 (Ninjas in missions all around the globe across UTC=0 should have perfect sync now :) )
- Fixed the reading of some GPX files with particular tags
- Fixed the hang-on when a picture without date/time was provided (a warning information is now shown and GPicSync jumps to the next picture)
- You can now again use decimal value for the UTC Offset (expl "2.4")
- The way the syncing and the GPX reading works has been completely redone. Hopefully the syncing should work now in all situations. In the process I had to remove the option "date must match" option for now (ie your camera should have been set to the correct date, if not use a tool like EXIFTool to change it)
New in GPicSync 1.10 (Jan 13, 2010)
- Bug fix: In recent versions GPicSync stopped if it encountered a picture at a different date than the GPX with "dates must match". Same symptom if the GPX didn't have any trackpoint (now an information message appear).
New in GPicSync 1.09 (Jan 13, 2010)
- Fixed a bug affecting geocoding of some RAW pictures formats in versions 1.07/1.08: geocoding didn't happened or was very slow
- Updated the German translation (thanks to Konrad Bauckmeier).
New in GPicSync 1.07 (Jan 13, 2010)
- Better elevation support for Google Earth KML especially for pictures taken during flight. Different mods can be selected directly form the interface (clamp to the ground, floating track and placemarks, extrude track).
- Possibility to select between two Geonames mods from the interface where you can decide if you want to add the HTML summarize in the IPTC caption (useful for Flickr). Other mods like XMP and IPTC specific fields should come soon.
- Portuguese is now available in the translations.
New in GPicSync 1.04 (Jan 13, 2010)
- EXIF Writer tool:
- You can now manually insert latitude and longitude in the pictures EXIF with the new "EXIF Writer" tool in the tools menu. You must use the decimal degrees format (whatever the precision you give) and you can apply your coordinates to one or more pictures (use the "Ctrl" button to select more than one picture). For example the statue of Liberty would be latitude=40.6894 and longitude=-74.0447
- Translations:
- GPicSync is now available in 10 languages thank to the translation in Dutch from Gijs van Elzakker.
- Updated translation in Spanish and Catalan (thanks to Oriol Garrote) and French.
New in GPicSync 1.02 (Jan 13, 2010)
- New translations
- Added Spanish and Catalan by Oriol Garrote
- In the configuration file you can now decide of the Geonames you want to search for (nearest place, region, country, summary). Also you can add a generic message with the geonames (your name and/or copyright for example) with the "geoname_userdefine" parameter in the configuration file.
- The configuration file is better organized and commented. When the application start is will search first for this parameters if they exist. When you close GPicSync you have two choices: - "Quit" button as usual - new "Quit and save settings" button
- In the latter case the configuration will be rewritten with all the settings of the current session (UTC Offset, etc.). In particular when you will use next time the "Pictures folder" it will prompt at the latest directory you've been too.
- By default a backup of your original pictures was made in an 'originals-backup' folder in your pictures folder. A suffix is now added with the name of your pictures folder ('originals-backup-yourpicturesfolder').
- This is to provide a unique name and a better search of your pictures in your hard-disk.
New in GPicSync 1.00 (Jan 13, 2010)
- Google Earth "with TimeStamp" option
- There is a new option for the Google Earth file called "with TimeStamp" directly in the interface.
- Google Earth will show a time sliders (you can modify the width with your mouse) and pictures will appear only if they are in the time frame.
- You can use the play button (to the right of the slider) to see your pictures appearing as time pass and you can change the time settings by clicking on the watch (on the left of the slider).
- Warning: If your camera was set to the local time you will have to click on "UTC" in the time setting (otherwise Google Earth will add a second time the offset).
New in GPicSync 0.99 (Jan 13, 2010)
- German translation added
- Automatically associate audio or video files to geolocalized pictures in Google Earth and Google Maps.
New in GPicSync 0.97 (Jan 13, 2010)
- For the "backup" option, a directory "originals_backup" is now created in the pictures folder (backup pictures keeps their original names).
- GPicSync remembers now the last picture folder selected inside a session
- A configuration file is now present where you can set main preferences as default (like the UTCOffset, Google Map base URL, etc). It's name is "gpicsync.conf" and it is located in the installation folder (normally "program files/GPicSync" on Windows) . You can edit it with an editor (like notepad for example) and change default values here (when GPicSync starts it reads this configuration file).I'll add a graphical interface from GPicSync in a future version.
- The local time correction tool remembers now the last correction in the session and show a status message in the main text window. The "apply correction" button leave now the window visible, to leave or hide it, hit the new "quit" button. This can be useful if you have old data from which you don't know the time difference and you're trying find.
New in GPicSync 0.94 (Jan 13, 2010)
- The interface has now an "interpolation" checkbox (unchecked by default). It gives more accurate results if:
- you take pictures while moving in a car or a plane
- you have a GPS setting with an important duration between each GPS trackpoint record
New in GPicSync 0.91 (Jan 13, 2010)
- Geocoded pictures visualized in Google Earth now keep their initial size ratio (whatever their original width and height). Pictures will appear with a a maximal width of 800 pixels (or 600 pixels for height if the picture was taller than wider). Other improvements for the KML will come soon in future versions. Thanks to Jerome for mentioning the problem in the GPicSync group.
New in GPicSync 0.90 (Jan 13, 2010)
- You can now decide to automatically add "geonames" and "geotagged" to the metada of your photos (check "add geonames and geotags" in the interface before geocoding). GPicSync must have an internet connection to retrieve the geonames.
New in GPicSync 0.83 (Jan 13, 2010)
- An option to geocode only the photos where the time difference (between picture time and nearest track point) is below a given time range (by default 120 seconds).
- An option to decide if you need or not a back-up of your pictures before processing (by default a backup is made).
New in GPicSync 0.81 (Jan 13, 2010)
- Changed the way the kml file + synchronization is produced (gained around a third of the previous time)
- Fixed in the doc.kml the tag "name" which appeared twice inside each placemark (thanks Peter)
New in GPicSync 0.50 (Jan 13, 2010)
- can sync now whatever the dates in the gpx files or the pictures folder "dates must match" (is now default option)
- added a stop and clear button
New in GPicSync 0.43 (Jan 13, 2010)
- reads now all the valid track points and don't search anymore for