[maemo-developers] How to access geotag information?

[From: Till Harbaum / Lists]

Hi,

Am Freitag 08 Januar 2010 schrieb Ivan Frade:
>  About other media types... there is no other format containing
> location, so tracker cannot fill that information by itself.
In this web site you can download wav files which claim to be geotagged:

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=73423

That's why i thought the maemo-recorder could do the same.

> see it when i arrive there). This will be supported in tracker 0.7
> (ready to play with on desktop), but not in 0.6/fremantle.
Using tracker 0.6 limited to images is a start. Do you have example
code somewhere? I have never worked with tracker before.

> 3) Scanning and reading files is not CPU expensive, but needs a lot of
> IO, and IO is a very precious resource.
Whatever the limit is: You don't want to do this in every single app.

Reards,
  Till