It's mainly for QTVR (QuickTime Virtual Reality) scenes. With GPS information (long/lat) recorded for each scene, it makes it easier to "connect the dots" of the scene so that you can have virtual walk-throughs. Otherwise, you'd have to record on a piece of graph paper the physical relationship between each site. The GPS connectivity is also useful for other folks. Some not only record lat/long but also magnetic direction and tilt/pan. So if you're surveying a site (or just taking pretty sunsets), you know the exact orientation of the camera. The company that I write some software for looked into GPS and QTVR technologies, but we never pursued it further because the market was so small. Perhaps with digital cameras, it might expand a bit further. Karen Nakamura www.gpsy.com Macintosh GPS Connectivity At 3:45 AM -0800 2/2/01, Skip wrote: >Very interesting, but could someone explain the utility of a camera >being able to be hooked up to a GPS unit? >Skip >-- * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
