digiKam Map Search Tool Under Construction

After to have improved the geo-location view from right sidebar in digiKam for KDE4, following this blog entry, the story continue with a new powerful search tool based on Marble Widget to be able to find pictures using a map.

The new digiKam search backend implemented by Marcel is already able to perform a search based on a rectangle area defined by GPS positions. Now, we need a suitable graphical interface for end users.

Following this bug entry KDE bugzilla, i'm in contact with Marble team to implement a selection tool for the next release. Implementation is not yet published on subversion, but it start to work like you can see on this video: