Situation

A family gathering with ten different photographers shotting every moment. You end up with thousands of photos that need to be organized at least in sequence over the time (to make a slide-show, for example).

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Most common images are coded on 8 bits (24 if you have three channels for the colors) which gives 256 different values. The problem is that the human eye sensitivity spans a great range of luminosity and can adapt fast to different contrast. As a results, photos taken on a places with important contrast will look over or under exposed.

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Few days ago Google release an open source library targeted at KML files: libkml. There is also bindings for python available.

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