Placing geodata in PDFs

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I would like to make some PDF photobooks with GPS data using Adobe InDesign. Ideally, i would select a bunch of images with geodata, and have an automatized workflow, that would give me the links for alle the images. I could use QR codes already (GenerateGeoQrOnline, from the forum here), near the pictures, but i think that it doesn't look as good as having some link or link symbol near the pictures. How is Opus creating those round marks, when i use Image LOCATE=osm? Is there a way Opus could make links in that style instead opening OSM in the browser?

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Opus creating those round marks

What marks? :thinking:

Is there a way Opus could make links in that style

You could repurpose the script from this discussion:

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I mean those markers like in the screenshot. And thank you, i will have a look into that script.

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That's an OSM feature :slight_smile:

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Yes, i thought so. Your code snippet seems interesting, but where does it trigger the marker?

cmd.RunCommand("OpenStreetMap + "&mlat=" + latitude + "&mlon=" + longitude + "#map=" + zoomlevel + "/" + latitude + "/" + longitude + "/");

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That's determined by the mlat and mlon parameters:

// with marker
cmd.RunCommand('https://www.openstreetmap.org/?' + '&mlat=' + lat + '&mlon=' + lon + '#map=' + zoomlevel + '/' + lat + '/' + lon);
// without marker
cmd.RunCommand('https://www.openstreetmap.org/?' +                                   '#map=' + zoomlevel + '/' + lat + '/' + lon);
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Is there a chance to output the EXIFs geodata, using your code, to a link, that could be embedded in the PDFs?

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What do you mean by embedded? Added as metadata to the file? Added as text or link to the pages in the pdf?

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Ideally there would be some small link or link icon under or near each image. I'm not sure, since i guess this would be the InDesign part, that is creating the PDF. But having some sort of link that is capable of creating those location markers would be a good start.

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I don't know how to program InDesign, but how about copying the links to the clipboard for easy pasting?

// https://resource.dopus.com/t/placing-geodata-in-pdfs/41279

// 2022-05-19

function OnClick(clickData) {
    var cmd = clickData.func.command;
    var tab = clickData.func.sourcetab;
    cmd.deselect = false;

    var zoomlevel = 18;

    var tmp = '';
    for (var e = new Enumerator(tab.selected_files); !e.atEnd(); e.moveNext()) {
        var item = e.item();

        if (item.metadata != 'image') continue;

        var lat = item.metadata.image.latitude;
        var lon = item.metadata.image.longitude;
        if (typeof lat != 'number' || typeof lon != 'number') continue;

        tmp += 'https://www.openstreetmap.org/?' + '&mlat=' + lat + '&mlon=' + lon + '#map=' + zoomlevel + '/' + lat + '/' + lon + '\r\n';
    }
    if (tmp != '') DOpus.SetClip(tmp);
}
Button as XML 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<button backcol="none" display="both" textcol="none">
	<label>OSM Link</label>
	<tip>Copy GPS to OSM link, one line per file</tip>
	<icon1>#copyfilenames</icon1>
	<function type="script">
		<instruction>@script JScript</instruction>
		<instruction>// https://resource.dopus.com/t/placing-geodata-in-pdfs/41279</instruction>
		<instruction />
		<instruction>// 2022-05-19</instruction>
		<instruction />
		<instruction>function OnClick(clickData) {</instruction>
		<instruction>    var cmd = clickData.func.command;</instruction>
		<instruction>    var tab = clickData.func.sourcetab;</instruction>
		<instruction>    cmd.deselect = false;</instruction>
		<instruction />
		<instruction>    var zoomlevel = 18;</instruction>
		<instruction />
		<instruction>    var tmp = &apos;&apos;;</instruction>
		<instruction>    for (var e = new Enumerator(tab.selected_files); !e.atEnd(); e.moveNext()) {</instruction>
		<instruction>        var item = e.item();</instruction>
		<instruction />
		<instruction>        if (item.metadata != &apos;image&apos;) continue;</instruction>
		<instruction />
		<instruction>        var lat = item.metadata.image.latitude;</instruction>
		<instruction>        var lon = item.metadata.image.longitude;</instruction>
		<instruction>        if (typeof lat != &apos;number&apos; || typeof lon != &apos;number&apos;) continue;</instruction>
		<instruction />
		<instruction>        tmp += &apos;https://www.openstreetmap.org/?&apos; + &apos;&amp;mlat=&apos; + lat + &apos;&amp;mlon=&apos; + lon + &apos;#map=&apos; + zoomlevel + &apos;/&apos; + lat + &apos;/&apos; + lon + &apos;\r\n&apos;;</instruction>
		<instruction>    }</instruction>
		<instruction>    if (tmp != &apos;&apos;) DOpus.SetClip(tmp);</instruction>
		<instruction>}</instruction>
	</function>
</button>
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Perfect, thank you, lxp!

We will now check out in InDesign, how the link could be integrated. I will report back, how things are going, but your code is already very helpful. :beers: