Geo Capture

Geo Capture

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Geo Capture is an Obsidian plugin for fast place capture in travel journals, trip logs, restaurant notes, and photo-based memories.

Positioning

Geo Capture is a note-first location capture plugin for Obsidian. It is built for travel journals, check-in logs, restaurant notes, sightseeing notes, and photo-based trip reviews.

It is not designed to replace a full map workspace. Its job is to help you insert useful place information into the note you are already writing.

Features

• Insert current device coordinates.
• Capture nearby place candidates with Google Places.
• Search places with OpenStreetMap Nominatim or Google Places.
• Use one quick insert flow for place names, coordinates, and map links.
• Parse map links or coordinates from the clipboard.
• Read EXIF GPS from nearby local JPG/JPEG images in the current note.
• Fall back to R2 Media Sync's local image metadata cache when the nearby image has already been rewritten to an R2 URL or the local attachment is unavailable.
• Cache photo GPS coordinates locally after a successful image lookup so repeated suggestions keep working if the local image is later moved, removed, or not yet synced on mobile.
• Insert photo-derived places at the current cursor or directly below the image.
• Fall back to manual place input when image GPS metadata is missing.
• Insert Markdown-friendly place snippets in compact, callout, table row, travel note, restaurant note, photo caption, or custom template formats.
• Generate Google Maps, Apple Maps, or OpenStreetMap links.
• Support multilingual UI with system language detection and manual language override.

Commands

• Geo Capture: Search place and insert Search by place name, paste a map link, or type coordinates.

• Geo Capture: Capture nearby place Get current location and list nearby place candidates with Google Places.

• Geo Capture: Insert current location Insert raw current device coordinates.

• Geo Capture: Insert location from clipboard Parse coordinates or common map links from the clipboard.

• Geo Capture: Suggest place from nearest image Find a nearby image in the current note, read JPG/JPEG EXIF GPS or R2 Media Sync metadata, and suggest nearby places.

Google Places Setup

Google Places is optional. To enable Google-powered search and nearby capture:

1. Set Place search provider to Google Places.
2. Enter a Google Places API key.
3. Enable Places API (New) in Google Cloud.
4. Adjust Nearby search radius.

Geo Capture uses Places API New endpoints places:searchText and places:searchNearby, with a minimal FieldMask for required fields.

Localization

Geo Capture uses System as the default display language and follows the current Obsidian app language. You can also manually choose:

• English
• Traditional Chinese
• Simplified Chinese

Command names, settings, notices, search placeholders, and some default inserted labels are localized.

Image Insert Position

Image place insert position supports:

• At current cursor
• Below the image

When set to Below the image, Suggest place from nearest image inserts the selected place immediately below the detected image, which fits a photo-first travel journal layout.

Cloudflare Media Sync Workflow

Geo Capture is designed to pair with fab34/cloudflare-media-sync:

1. Insert photos into an Obsidian note.
2. R2 Media Sync reads available JPEG GPS coordinates before uploading and records them in its local image_metadata.json cache.
3. Cloudflare Media Sync uploads the image to Cloudflare R2 and rewrites the image link.
4. Let Geo Capture read local JPG/JPEG EXIF GPS, or fall back to the R2 Media Sync metadata cache when the note already contains an R2 URL.
5. Select a nearby place or enter a place manually.
6. Geo Capture writes durable location Markdown into the note.

The location annotation remains readable even after the local image link is replaced by an R2 URL.

Current Limitations

• EXIF GPS reading currently supports local JPG/JPEG files.
• R2 URL fallback depends on R2 Media Sync having captured GPS metadata before the image was uploaded.
• HEIC, PNG, WebP, and remote image URL metadata reading are not implemented yet.
• Many photos lose GPS metadata because of privacy settings, compression, social apps, or transfer workflows.
• Google Places requires an API key and may incur Google Maps Platform costs.
• Nearby search is available only when Google Places is selected and configured.

Privacy and Security

• Geo Capture does not include telemetry or analytics.
• Geo Capture does not upload note content or images.
• Network requests are made only when the user runs search, nearby-place, or photo-location commands.
• The optional Google Places API key is stored in local Obsidian plugin data and is only used for Google Places API requests.
• Photo EXIF GPS is read locally; coordinates are sent to Google only when Google Places is configured and used.
• Geo Capture stores a small local image GPS cache in its Obsidian plugin data after successful EXIF or metadata lookups. The cache contains image identifiers, coordinates, source path labels, and timestamps so repeated photo-location suggestions can work after a local attachment becomes unavailable.
• When Cloudflare Media Sync metadata fallback is used, Geo Capture reads .obsidian/plugins/cloudflare-media-sync/image_metadata.json locally and does not modify it.

See docs/security/security-review.md for the current security review.

Release Provenance

Geo Capture release assets now include GitHub artifact attestations.

Each published release can automatically generate provenance attestations for:

• manifest.json
• main.js
• styles.css

This helps users verify that release assets were built from the source repository through GitHub Actions.

Testing

See docs/testing/desktop-mobile-test-plan.md for the desktop and mobile test checklist.

Before release, run:

npm run check

Development

npm install
npm run dev

For local testing, symlink this folder into your vault:

ln -s /Users/fab34/Desktop/Git/GeoCapture /path/to/your/vault/.obsidian/plugins/geo-capture

Required Obsidian release files:

• main.js
• manifest.json
• styles.css

Published releases are available on GitHub:

• 0.1.15
• 0.1.14
• 0.1.13
• 0.1.12