GUI frontend for geo-tagged photo-search in Everything.
Search for photos taken in the visible part of the map.
ViewFinder screencapture
How to use
Start ViewFinder for Everything.cmd
Photos that are taken in the visible part of the map will be searched for.
The Open in Everything button will list them in Everything.
Search-as-you-type
- Type the name of a place in the Location-searchbox.
- Select one of the matching places
The map will zoom in on that place.
Other ways to zoom in on a part of the map:
- Drag the map to a location where the desired photos are located.
Use the mouse scrollwheel to zoom in/out. - Mark an area with SHIFT + leftmousebutton
- Double-click a location (SHIFT+doubleclick zooms out)
Extra filters
Optionally adding a date range and/or time range and/or comment(s) helps to further reduce the amount of found photos.
Date range
Enter start date, end date or both.
Time range
Enter start time, end time or both.
To find photos taken around midnight, enter a starttime greater than the endtime.
For example: Timerange = 22:00..02:00
Comments
Comments syntax (example): "eiffel tower" paris "big ben" london
Searching for comments is case-insensitive.
Use Any Word or All Words depending on the situation.
Installation
- Download Source code (zip)
- Extract it to a folder
- Change the settings in ViewFinder.ini to your liking.
- Done!
Requirements
- Everything 1.5, minimum version 1.5.0.1401
- Windows 10/11
- MS Edge installed; min version:118 (released in 2023)
- es: URL protocol needs to be enabled in Everything.
( under Menu => Tools => Options => General ) - Latitude and longitude need to be indexed:
- In Everything, go to Menu => Tools => Options => Indexes => Properties
- Click the Add button
- In the Search field, type tude
- Select latitude and longitude
- OK
- Back in the Properties list, select Latitude and configure where (not) to search for geotagged photos.
- Do the same for longitude
- OK
- Let Everything scan all matching photos for these properties (progress is shown in the status bar)
Notes:
- The regular OpenStreetMap shows places with a localized name. Inconvenient for places in Oman, Laos, Japan, etc.
Switched to a German map provider. Now Tokyo can be found again
(by the non Japanese speaking part of the world) - The scale on the map shows distances in (kilo)meters. So 4% of the world population is out of luck in this version.
Will add miles in the future. - Search-as-you-type starts querying the database from the 4th character on. If you're looking for places with less characters (like "Oss" in the Netherlands), add spaces.
- The database that is being used to get all the places, has a restriction on the amount of queries that is allowed:
1000 per hour; 10k per day. That is for all people using ViewFinder combined. When the limit is reached, further requests are not accepted.
