Link photo to multiple nodes

[MelwinQ]

Having a photo showing multiple summits (or routes, crags, etc) it would be useful to link it to several nodes. Currently, any existing link seems to be deleted if I link an existing photo to another item.

[scd]

Believe it or not, I had not really thought of doing this. At the moment there is a one-to-one relationship between photos and nodes, so associating it with another node will remove the old association.

We have a lot to do with photos in the medium term, in particular we want to link to peoples google and flickr accounts. I will look further into this issue when we tackle social integration.

[brendanheywood]

As an interim workaround the best bet is to link it to the cliff instead of the route.

[cgome]

Relates (obliquely) to issue #291. ie Load photo to closest common ancestor then create area topo

[lordyavin]

Want to bring this up a little bit. My current use case is this photo. It shows the sector Alte Hausenerwand, Westface and the Eigerturm. As it is showing both faces, I linked it with the parent node but now I'm not able to use it as webcover for the children and the image is of course not listed as image of the children. If I link to one of the both it is missing in the other one.

[brendanheywood]

I think that is more a bug in the webcover selection process which should allow a more flexible selection. I think your photo does make the most sense in the parent. There is no hard linkage between a webcover and the node a photo is at, so as a PITA workaround you could temporarily move the photo, set the webcover, then move it back.

[lordyavin]

That described workaround does not work. After assigning the webcover the UI hides the buttons to link the photo.

[brendanheywood]

hhmm can you please be exact with the steps / urls + screen shots?

[lordyavin]

Review Photo UI for the photo not set as webcover:

Review Photo UI for the photo after setting as webcover:

As you can see the Buttons Link Photo, Unlink Photo, Remove Photo and Disable Photo are hidden.

[brendanheywood]

@scd whats going on with that? Is a webcover a type of link, but not a link?

[scd]

I am guessing I was too smart by half. Those buttons are probably disabled so that somebody does not do something crazy once a photo becomes a webcover. the Link and Unlink is overkill.

[killakalle]

Here's another use case where linking photos/topos to multiple nodes would be useful:

https://www.thecrag.com/en/climbing/germany/schwaebische-alb/donautal

In that area most of the crags are individual rocks that are not considered part of an area or larger crag. However, some are close to each other and can be shown together in an 'area topo'.

The downside:

• 'area topos' are shown in between the list of crags, which makes it weird to browse.
• Those small 'area topos' would make a lot more sense to be linked to only the depicted crags.

As a PITA workaround for that situation (on another node) I have uploaded the same picture on each sub-area and created duplicate topos on each node where I upload the picture.

See an example (sectors from different parents shown on same topo):

• https://www.thecrag.com/en/climbing/spain/valencia/area/4906582470
• https://www.thecrag.com/en/climbing/spain/valencia/area/1437111372