Enforcement of Tags

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[Originally posted by runningwolf on 2009-07-27 08:46:10-07]

Hi,

I got another little prob.
I use the tags $filename, $ImageDescription, $usercomment as well as $gpslongitude,$gpslatitude. But not all of my images contain all data. E.g. if there's no usercomment, exiftool will not only ignore that tag but also the entire entry in the -p file (combines $filename, $ImageDescription, $usercomment). So I used option -f to enforce them (even if empty ones are replaced by "-"). Prob. then is that the geotag will also be filled with "-" if not present.
Since I want to launch google only if geotags are found I wrote a little program checking for the existance of

Code:

<coordinates>

but not

Code:

<coordinates>-,-,0</coordinates>

. That does the trick but I assume there's an easier way than that.

Bye

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[Originally posted by runningwolf on 2009-08-11 16:38:02-07]

Any hint on this?

Cheerio........