geo_tagger

A ros driver package developed at Institute für Flugführung, Technische Universität Braunschweig for the for the ANKOMMEN project. Geo-tagging of images using Exiv2-0.25 library.

geo_tagger_node

Subscribes to the camera images, saves them with some name and then geo-tags them. It publishes the Image with GPS info in an geo_tagger/GeoImageCompressed msg.

Published topics

/geoimage Publishes the geo_tagger/GeoImageCompressed.

Subscribed topics

~/image/compressed sensor_msgs/CompressedImage Gets the saved image_name from ROS_INFO stream of image_saver node /gps/fix of type sensor_msgs/NavSatFix Gets the current GPS information from some GPS node publishing on this topic

Running the node

roslaunch geo_tagger geo_tagger.launch

Supported hardware

This driver is designed for Allied Vision Manta G917 But it should work with other cameras as well. In order to support a new camera, create a copy of the config\avt_manta.yaml and update the exif parameters suited to the new camera. Then replace the name of the config file in the launch\geo_tagger.launch file.