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osphotos

Open Source Photos app.

OSPhostos is a metadata editor that enables you to share an image's (or a whole library of images') metadata with friends and with anyone via the internet.

It defines a standard data transfer format for JSONs containing information about an image to be shared with all the standard camera tags preserved as well.

Most importantly:

  • People on a photo;
  • Arbitrary tags about the image;
  • Date taken;
  • Camera used and its settings.

The basic plan is for this to replace Google Photos as the best "image indexer" app.

Roadmap

  • Define common data format.
  • Create an API that writes to that common format.
  • Feature: Merge different libraries together. Needs discussion on how to handle conflicts.
  • Semantic stuff: enable users to autodetect faces, auto-generate tags, auto-group similar photos, etc.

Metadata management is extremely important. This project will also strive to make metadata sharing easy.

See queries.md to get an idea of what sort of use cases this is intended to attend.

Its architecture is heavily influenced by git.