Batch reverse geocoding should produce choice of locations

Started by DigPeter, December 05, 2013, 06:26:56 PM

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DigPeter

When reverse geocoding in the location metadata panel, for a batch of more than one image within a certain distance, could we have the same choice of location in the look up all option as in the Look up option.

When more than one image is selected, there is a choice of Look up and look up all.  If Look up is selected, there is often a choice of more than one location, ordered from nearest to furthest.  If one of the locations is selected, this is written only to the image that has focus.  If look up all is selected, no location is shown and the nearest location to each image is written. This is as expected and makes sense when the selected images are widely dispersed.   

In the case where the selected images have the same geo coords, within some defined tolerance (say 5 kilometres), could the same choice of location be available in the look up all option as in the Look up option.  The reason for this is that the nearest City offered is often some insignificant place and it might be more suitable to include somewhere further away.  For instance I might be offered the nearest City "Ibthorpe", which is tiny hamlet in the larger area of "Andover", which is more meaningful, but further away.  The smaller Ibthorpe" could be entered manually in Location if required.

Perhaps this could be implemented by a Select location option which is only active when a batch of images is offered.