The new flickr2qgis plugin for QGIS
In the last week I saw a post on the German ESRI page called GIS-IQ which featured a new widget for ArcGIS which needs you to have the “ArcGIS Web AppBuilder Developer Edition 1.2”. This widget lets you fetch images from flickr and probably show it on the map. I haven’t tried it yet but I thought: lets build something similar for QGIS… so here is my flickr API plugin for QGISThe Beta of flickr2QGIS
So let’s get it straight: It’s far from perfect. But see for yourself:
Images taken in Berlin as fetched with flickr2qgis
Images tagged with the keyword Berlin
Prerequisites
At the moment the plugin requires you to install the Python Flickr API called flickrapi and to get a flickr API key. The latter one is probably the simplest as you just need to register at the Flickr page and copy the keys into the plugin (tab “keys”).
flickr2qgis plugin for QGIS
Known Issues
At the moment the implementation shows images after processing which might lead to an unresponsive qgis for quite a moment. Additionally all images are now shown as a categorized layer which is cartographic nonsense but I wasn’t able to implement the function proposed here by Nathan. And I just fought with symbols in QGIS the python way…! I won the fight but the war is not over yet. I also would like to mention two ressources which helped me a lot:- Saara-Maija post on QGIS and postgresql databases
- the Packt book “QGIS Python programming cookbook”
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