Hiya Geoff,

Good idea. With more camera's coming out with GPS onboard it would be nice to be able to directly link to something like google earth.

So, you went to Baja, trucked the boat to the west coast, just out of curiosity, were are you now?

Greets.
Toon D.

I'm back home in MA and will head back to the boat at the end of February.

BTW, my camera doesn't have a GPS, but I use GeoSetter to geocode the images. Unfortunately I had done a whole writeup on this and posted it in this forum, but Jan had to restore the forum DB from a backup and it got lost. All of my image pages now include extensive geocoding information.

-- Geoff

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I figured out a way to test this and got it to work. I created a new "globe" icon and replaced my "home" icon with it. I then changed the "home" link on the image pages to

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=(@<ImageExif Tag="GPSLatitudeDeg">,<ImageExif Tag="GPSLongitudeDeg">)

(Thank you Jan for parsing the link for tags!)

You can see a sample of this at

http://www.geoffschultz.org/2011_Sailing/Photos/MEX_BCS_Isla_San_Jose/

Should be a piece of cake for Jan to correctly implement. I would also suggest that this button not get generated if there isn't EXIF lat/long data.

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I might be behind the times, but I made this request 3 years ago -

When Arles generates a gallery in a folder, it creates a folder by the name of "arles_gallery". I'd like Arles to use a custom folder name other than "arles_gallery". "arles_gallery" does nothing for me, just causing another step in the workflow. I would like the folder name to be the parent folder name. Is there a way to give a different name to that folder? I suggested a "%f" variable. there could be other % variable names too.

Hopefully this has been added after three years.

..Doug

It works now. Just use <FolderName>.

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It would be very nice if the navigation button images were defined in the CSS.

I'm trying to improve my website performance and I would like to create a sprite so that only 1 image has to be downloaded which contains all of the navigation elements. I can't do that using the existing structure.

I use a single CSS file for all of my albums. If these elements were defined in there, I could change the navigation buttons (and background) for the entire web site by editing 1 file.

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It would be very nice if you could generate "real" php pages, not simply the current set of .html files with .php extensions.

I would like a single index page and a single image page, both of which would take arguments. For example, index.php?index=2 or image.php?image=filename.jpg

The image.php code would extract IPTC and/or EXIF info directly from the images stored on the server. I think that you would have to hard code information for the index in the php file to reduce server overhead, but everything else could be extracted on the fly.

This would be much more efficient than having a single hard-coded .html file for each image. On average, my albums have about 24 images in them. The image html files average 8 KB or 192 KB per album. Most likely you could generate a php file that would be, let's say 19 KB, or 90% smaller than what's currently generated.

The efficiency gets better the larger the album. For example, I have one album that has 192 images in it (Caribbean fish). The html files in there are 24 KB each or a total of 4.45 MB! Granted, this is extreme, but the overhead is ridiculous.

-- Geoff

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It would be nice if Arles allowed the user to define navigation buttons. Right now you're limited to the buttons which are supplied. This feature would allow the user to specify an image, location on the nav bar, text and a URL. This would allow the user to add things such as the geo-coded map function that I previously requested without requiring Arles support.

Right now I'm trying to figure out how to add a button which would link my albums to the associated logs that I write and/or more photo albums, but I can't figure out how to do it with the set of buttons that are provided. I get tons of traffic from search engines, but the user tends to stay on the album that the search album directs them to. With this capability they might explore more of the web site.

-- Geoff

[edit] Or another option would be to simply define a few empty buttons that we users can specify the above info. At this point I wouldn't even worry about placement on the nav bar.

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It would be very nice if Arles had an IF statement that could be used along with tags.

For example, I output <meta> fields that go into the <head> section of my html, which include IPTC fields which may or may not include information. For one meta tag I output Country, ProvinceState, City, Sublocation, CountryCode. If all of these fields are populated, the output looks great. However, if they're blank, I end up with something like:

United State, Massachusetts, , , USA

If there were a statement like

<IF (<ImageIPTC Tag="CountryName">) {", " . <ImageIPTC Tag="CountryName"> : ""}>

(or whatever syntax), you could control what gets generated.

I realize that this is far beyond what the average user would use, but I suspect that some of your higher-end users would find it very useful.

-- Geoff

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