Cannot find ExifTool and config file for QGIS

[FabianHaas]

Hello, seems I am too dumm for these tools.

I installed the Exiftools using ExifTool-10.02.dmg and can run it by terminal, so they seem to be there. However I need to locate the config file, which I am simply unable to do because I cannot find it with any of my tool I have.

I use MacOS 10.9.5 (in German)

The reason I need to find teh config file is I want to use the Exiftools with QuantumGIS 2.8.1 with teh Geotag and import photos plugin: http://hub.qgis.org/projects/geotagphotos/wiki

And yes I read all installation instructions on the respective webpages

Thank you

Fabian

[Phil Harvey]

What you you mean by "I need to locate the config file"?

Is it on your disk somewhere but you need to know how to tell ExifTool where it is?  Or you just can't find it?  What config file are you talking about?  The one referenced from the QuantumGIS web page?

- Phil

[Skippy]

Hi Fabian,
I tried installing photo2shape on my copy of QGIS 2.8.1 and it is missing a module called exifread so it will not run on my computer either (Win 8.1).  The plug-in description notes that exifread is a dependency but that dependency is not automatically downloaded and installed.  Exifread is a python library for reading exif data that seems to use Phil's list of tag definitions but does not seem to call exiftool to do the actual exif tag reading.  I don't think exiftool is involved in the QGIS photo2shape plug-in any more.  I have scanned the source code and can't find any references.  Also note that the screenshots from the link in your page show QGIS 1.7 or 1.8, which was replaced about 2 years ago. 
Skippy

[FabianHaas]

Hello Phil and Skippy,

thank you for the reply, yes indeed things are puzzling, and kept me busy the whole weekend.

I install the QGIS Plugins via the repository: http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/plugins.xml?qgis2.8
so could it be that there is simply an outdated version of the plug ins lingering around?

Phil, pls see the last pic. Once installed and Paths set, the Geotag plugin asks me to get to the ExifTool config. And if I ignore that then i am not able to upload any of the pics. Is that an old version in this repository too.

Basically I would love to be able to upload the geocoordinates of my pics directly into GIS, and finally have a shape file with dots. Is there any other plug in available doing that trick?

Hope the new information helps. I see that QGIS is now 2.10 to which I would update if that has some advantages.

Best Fabian

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Fabian,

If you installed ExifTool 9.99 or later on OS X, the install location is /usr/local/bin, so you should specify "/usr/local/bin/exiftool" in your plugin settings.

- Phil