Syncing photos to web

Askja Vjp shared this idea 7 months ago
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Hi the photos that are in the attachment of user points or tracks do not show up even though the points/tracks are there on the web.

I take the photos directly in the app and then write in the description box some info while I am tracking a trail. I would like to be able to access the photos straight away on the web after the track has been synced.

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This is an idea, not a problem

as this feature isnt there yet.

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Hello,

as Alistair wrote - The web planner is still in development and many of the features missing. But we are working on it.

Anyway, even between two apps photos are not synced. This whole function need to be rethinked and rebuilt.

Regards,


Zdenek, Locus team

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Opportunities do exist. However, no standard has ever been proposed for this and there is no initiative to do so.
Still, you can effectively test something and see a result. Similar to kml/kmz but here by gpx/gpz.
So the gpz file attached here does include a photo. You open this directly in the gpx viewer app (if installed).

If you change the extension to zip, you can also import it into Locus. Make sure you don't activate your unzipper app first. That's why the gpz extension is prefered. So link your favourite gps app to this extension. Is this offered by any app ? future? No, due to insufficient interest also no such app development nor any such offer seems to exist.

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as long as the file path was the same

ie /sdcard/Locus/media

not /storage/SDCARDNAME THATDOESNT EXIST/Media or similar

then you could use foldersync to upload media to google drive, and sunc back to other device

the attachment thumbnail and media path is synced with locus, and this would sync the images

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Hi Alistair.
I guessed for a moment, but I did think you were going to pick this up quickly ;-) What I show is bu a gpx link to a photo in the gpz (zip) file itself already present. This can also be a photo in a folder, well of course if the link is correct. This works completely offline via a gpz (zip) file. The proposal via internet link is certainly possible. Provided there is an online connection to the relevant photo location. Anyway good luck and a lot of patience with your attempts.

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So what youre saying is a bit like this https://help.locusmap.eu/topic/kmz-with-popup-photo-thumbnails

There are a lot of problems with photos now, especially sunce Android 12 problems, but also because of locus cloud options, but the locus team have a lot of other projects, so its not a simole one.


My only objection to the gpx/kml options is that they arent useable by other image viewer apps, so it means keeping locus photo POI along with other photos,

big advantage of the geotagged photo layer is that it works with existing photo library....

big problem with photo library is that you have to keep it all on phone, and the issue with A12.

But i dont think the locus team are going to let us store 20gb+ of photos on their servers.....

thats why some of my otehr ideas have been using dropbox or google photos, so it provides images that sync, but integrates with existing photos collections...

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You should be able to choose where to save photos. When I assign a photo to a point, I want to save it in Locus and nowhere else. A bathing spot or another point for me where I want a picture. I will only need these pictures in Locus, so they should only be stored there. So I save Locus files and everything is together.

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are you assigning a point, or taking a new photo for that point.

if assigning, then you have already taken lots of photos which problbably exist already.

some people might want to assign hundreds of points at once by going through the photomap layer, so locus needs to acecss the photo collection


problem then comes with Android 12, or people who are using google photos because of the way android has may storing photos locally difficult.....


from your usuage, if you want photos available on other devices, then its just a case of synicg the photos.

but as locus can assign a photo thats in a folder not in locus, not so straight forward.

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do I understand this correctly. If I already have a photo in google photos or in a folder for Handy Fotogalery. Then this is a problem with A12 ?
My wish would be then that the photo is copied to Locus when assigning and saved there.
Do you have an example of use where you want to assign hundreds of photos. Gladly also in the forum by message. I do not want to disturb the topic here.

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freischneider, have sent PM via the forum....

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I don't want to set up a new "idea". Therefore, I would like to extend this to synchronize photos of photos stored in the phone.

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I would like to bring this idea back in the foreground. Is there an update?

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