Hi Jacob, If you normally use a Garmin GPS, you can geotag your photos using the Garmin Basecamp program. Just make sure your camera and GPS unit are set to the same date/ timezone/ time, and enable the "tracking" function on your GPS. Check out the instructions on this page: http://garminbasecamp.wikispaces.com/Photos
I found that using the GPS function in my camera used a lot of battery power, and my Garmin has better accuracy than my camera. Karen G. Karen Golinski Postdoctoral Research Fellow Smithsonian Institution On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Jacob Hadle <jjha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a question for those of you who are familiar with point and shoot > digital cameras that have built-in GPS units. A project I have acquired > this summer involves a plant inventory on a ~7,000 acres site (open and > dense canopy areas). In part, the protocol requires us to take a picture > of each plant species and document their latitude and longitude > coordinates. To optimizes my time effectively, using a camera that > geotags each picture would seem to work well. > > The main interests I have in the point and shoot camera in not so much > how the quality the picture takes, but how accurate the camera will pick > up coordinates. I have spent a considerable amount of time online, and > calling local camera stores researching which point and shoot camera > would have the best GPS quality; however, I have found very little > information about the accuracy and performance in these built-in GPS > units. I am currently looking into the Canon PowerShot D20 or the Ricoh > G700 SE-M. > > If anyone has experience using digital cameras with built-in GPS units > in the field, I would truly appreciate your thoughts. > > Most grateful, > > Jacob >
