Issue with user-defined location in .ExifTool_config

[CWCorrea]

Hello Phil,

I'm thrilled with the geolocation capabilities of ExifTool 12.79!

For testing the user-defined locations, I copied the UserDefined::Geolocation block from the example.config file from the 12.79 distribution to my .ExifTool_config and added a new location:

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@Image::ExifTool::UserDefined::Geolocation = (
    # (city,region,country code,country,timezone,population,lat,lon)
    ['Sinemorets','Burgas','BG','Bulgaria','Europe/Sofia',400,42.06115,27.97833],
    ['Satexco','Antioquia','CO','Colombia','America/Bogota',250,6.17087,-75.61440],
);

When running ExifTool with the -api geolocation option, I'm getting the following message:

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Country code 'Bulgaria' in UserDefined::Geolocation is not 2 characters
Country code 'Colombia' in UserDefined::Geolocation is not 2 characters

If I change the countries names to their codes, BG for Bulgaria and CO for Colombia, I get this message:

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Too few arguments in Sinemorets definition
Too few arguments in Satexco definition

Because of this issue, the user-defined location is not used by ExifTool.

I'm running ExifTool 12.79 with Geolocation500/Geolocation.dat v1.01 on macOS 12.6.3.

Thanks,

Christian W.

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Christian,

Sorry.  The format for the user-defined entries changed in 12.79.  The current geolocation.html web page should be correct.

Note that this is likely to change again for 12.80 since I think I'll be adding the feature code. (Apologies in advance.)

- Phil

[CWCorrea]

Hello Phil.

Thanks for your answer. I copied the @Image::ExifTool::UserDefined::Geolocation block from the ExifTool Geolocation Feature page to my .ExifTool_config file and got the following error message:

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Loaded .Exiftool_config!
Cannot pack NaN with 'n' at /usr/local/bin/lib/Image/ExifTool/Geolocation.pm line 248.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/bin/lib/Image/ExifTool.pm line 4324.

If I remove that block from the config file, ExifTool runs without issues.

Christian W.

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Christian,

The issue was simply that the config file Geolocation definitions didn't match the current format.  I'm sort of surprised that someone was using these already, which is why I didn't take much care to make this backward compatible.  I've gone and changed this format again in 12.80 (just released), but I think the format should be stable now.

- Phil

[CWCorrea]

Hello Phil,

ExifTool v12.80 with Geolocation500 v1.02 works great with user defined cities:

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ExifToolVersion                 : 12.80
GeolocationCity                 : Satexco
GeolocationRegion               : Itagui
GeolocationSubregion            : Antioquia
GeolocationCountryCode          : CO
GeolocationCountry              : Colombia
GeolocationTimeZone             : America/Bogota
GeolocationFeatureCode          : PPL
GeolocationPopulation           : 250
GeolocationPosition             : 6.1709, -75.6144
GeolocationDistance             : 0.31 km
GeolocationBearing              : 284


Thanks!

Christian W.

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Christian,

Excellent!  Thanks for the feedback.

- Phil