Viewing geotagged photos
Keeping track of photographs by location can be an extremely useful tool, enabling you to easily pull up relevant photos of a place and time. They provide local context about other data collected in the same place, and they can provide office staff with a view of what people in the field saw. You can think of this as your own personal Street View, which is just more focused than Google's version.
Getting ready
For this recipe, you'll need a set of geotagged photos. We've included a set a photos in this book's data for you to learn with. This is a collection of photos from downtown Davis that highlights the density and variety of public art along several blocks.
This recipe also takes advantage of several plugins, as follows:
Install and activate Photo2Shape
Activate the core plugin, eVis (Event Visualization)
(Optional) Install and activate OpenLayers Plugin
How to do it…
Follow these steps to view geotagged photo locations in QGIS:
In a QGIS project, enable the plugins listed...