Hi Joe and thanks for your feedback.
1) Could you add these selections to the Plugin configuration for map types?
- Terrain Map (usually presents a very "clean" appearance)
This one is already included (I presume you mean the G_PHYSICAL_MAP type? I named it "physical map" in the config screen; change that in the new version.) I did not find any other map type suitable for the plugin. It may be cause I'm still using the V2 of the Google maps API, V3 may offer some aditional things. See
http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html#GMapType - GMenuMapTypeControl - will present the visitor with a drop-down menu to select map type (has limits).
I added that function on my local testbed, works fine. After tweaking it a little bit I'll release later today.
2) For those of us with older cameras and very much older photographs. Would it be possible to add a reverse geo-tagging feature? Perhaps within edit_one_pic.php or on a dedicated page?
Gee I don't know. I geotag all my images with "geosetter"
(http://www.geosetter.de). This is a really fantastic tool that does the trick for me, even if I don't have GPS tracks to merge with my images. This of course would require you to re-upload the images after you add the geodata.
Geotagging the images inside coppermine would require a couple of steps
- Obtain the geo-coordinates for an image with a user-friendly interface
- Save these Coordinates in the original JPEG-Exif header ( I could of course only dump it into my plugin table, but i'd consider that a waste of effort on the user side)
- Retrieve the coordinates from the new Exif header to be able to display them.
I don't know if it's really worth the effort, especially the user-friendly-tagging part. I'll give it some thought.
Cheers, Florian