Thanks for your reply..
i’m interested in what you would do with a KML file like that? I am currently making a program that will grab the coordinates and other image data off of my M2P photos and will create a cvs file for me to refly the course and retake the same images automatically in Litchi Virtual Mission. I had to manually fly my last image taking misssion in a canyon due to wanting to be sure to get good coverage and to avoid the walls, and think I can set it up to run autonomously by copying the image locations as waypoints.
Cool idea! I may try that with Waypoints on a newer aircraft where Litchi wouldn’t be necessary! DJI always recommends a manual recording of Waypoints first, rather than relying upon creating them with the inevitable imprecision of the crappy Android maps on their screen controllers. Create them once onsite and then replay them remotely and conveniently from a distance. I like it!
Thanks, I’ll share the .exe file (and Python code if anyone wants it) once I debug and test it. Right now it does read the GPS coordinates from the photos in a directory and makes a cvs text file out with them, but there’s a lot of other flight parameters for Litchi format I have to code in including ordering them correctly to make a efficient flight route between the photo points.
While this is an interesting and worthwhile pursuit, the ability to do this already exists in one of my converters.
Now I’m totally convinced that whatever idea someone has, someone else has already put it out there! This is a lot better than what I was thinking of doing, conserving the flight path between the photo points is one of the issues I was concerned about, especially if I fly around an obstacle to get to the second point. The way I was going to do it, a drone would’ve flown straight into the obstacle. Thank you for your reply here, I’ll have to check out your waypoint tool!While this is an interesting and worthwhile pursuit, the ability to do this already exists in one of my converters.
The GPS coordinates, height, yaw, and gimbal pitch angle are also found in the flight log along with either a 0 (zero) or 1 (one) in the "isPhoto" column of the data. Using the flight log allows you to parse one file (instead of a directory of photos) to obtain the same data.
If you sync your logs to AirData, it is trivial to download a CSV (not cvs) version of your log then use that as input to my "AirData to Litchi" converter. CSV files from PhantomHelp and Litchi are also supported.
AirData to Litchi Converter
Convert a drone flight log from AirData into a Litchi waypoint mission allowing one to repeat a manually flown flight using waypoints.www.litchiutilities.com
Then you would select the "Photos" option:
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If desired, the resulting Litchi CSV file can be converted to a KMZ file for newer DJI drones. I'm not suggesting that you don't create a utility to ready the XMP data from photos. I once considered doing the same thing. However, parsing the same data from a single text file is easier than assembling a series of much larger image files and can be provided via a web utility.
