RE: Question re GPS and geotagging
Glad to hear that someone find it useful. Stig Vidar Hovland Mobile phones with GPS are rather cheap today ( http://www.dustinhome.no/pd_5010198934.aspx ) and can run car navigation software, terrain nav. software or simple GPX loggers. I did this on our trip to London and my phone was able to log continously for 10 hours and using 60% of the battery. Can send you the files for the Saturday if you want them. Stig I should thank you again, I've been using the modified logger and it works great! Cheers, -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Question re GPS and geotagging
Stig, Sorry about late reply. Thanks for the offer on the GPS log files, but in case of Greenwich I think I have pretty good control on the placenames. :-) I wasn't aware that GPS enabled cellphones were that cheap now. Thanks for the tip! Makes me regret buying the GlobalSat unit since my old phone is falling apart. :-( Did a test run today of the GlobalSat today, btw, with subsequent computer uploading and matching. I used GeoSetter to merge the GPS data (from a *.gpx file) into the DNG files, and Lightroom assimilated the new metadata without glitch. But I still have the tiniest tinge of envy of the Nikon GPS that attaches directly to camera and writes into the raw files directly. Jostein 2009/10/16 SV Hovland p...@heime.org: Yes, looks nice. One important feature is the AA batteries. Li-Ion batteries are usually dead after a few years and next to impossible to replace on a unit which was out of production several years ago. Mobile phones with GPS are rather cheap today ( http://www.dustinhome.no/pd_5010198934.aspx ) and can run car navigation software, terrain nav. software or simple GPX loggers. I did this on our trip to London and my phone was able to log continously for 10 hours and using 60% of the battery. Can send you the files for the Saturday if you want them. Stig Vidar Fra: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [pdml-boun...@pdml.net] p#229; vegne av AlunFoto [alunf...@gmail.com] Sendt: 15. oktober 2009 11:07 Til: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Emne: Re: Question re GPS and geotagging 2009/10/14 Bob W p...@web-options.com: I hope the GPS you've ordered has bigger buttons than mine! :-) This is the thingy: http://www.globalsat.com.tw/eng/product_detail_0090.htm I hope it's going to be as simple as set and forget for each time we make landfall. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Stan Halpin wrote: Aha! Blinding flash of the obvious! Thanks Ken. I am very undisciplined about taking notes. But my iPhone does have a voice-notes feature that I might be able to remember to use. Thanks all for your various high and low tech suggestions. stan Stan, search the app store for PhotoNotes. It got an honorable mention on Gizmodo, and looks to be useful. Voice recording is said to be upcoming. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On 16/10/2009, SV Hovland p...@heime.org wrote: Mobile phones with GPS are rather cheap today ( http://www.dustinhome.no/pd_5010198934.aspx ) and can run car navigation software, terrain nav. software or simple GPX loggers. I did this on our trip to London and my phone was able to log continously for 10 hours and using 60% of the battery. Can send you the files for the Saturday if you want them. Stig I should thank you again, I've been using the modified logger and it works great! Cheers, -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Question re GPS and geotagging
Yes, looks nice. One important feature is the AA batteries. Li-Ion batteries are usually dead after a few years and next to impossible to replace on a unit which was out of production several years ago. Mobile phones with GPS are rather cheap today ( http://www.dustinhome.no/pd_5010198934.aspx ) and can run car navigation software, terrain nav. software or simple GPX loggers. I did this on our trip to London and my phone was able to log continously for 10 hours and using 60% of the battery. Can send you the files for the Saturday if you want them. Stig Vidar Fra: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [pdml-boun...@pdml.net] p#229; vegne av AlunFoto [alunf...@gmail.com] Sendt: 15. oktober 2009 11:07 Til: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Emne: Re: Question re GPS and geotagging 2009/10/14 Bob W p...@web-options.com: I hope the GPS you've ordered has bigger buttons than mine! :-) This is the thingy: http://www.globalsat.com.tw/eng/product_detail_0090.htm I hope it's going to be as simple as set and forget for each time we make landfall. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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2009/10/14 Bob W p...@web-options.com: I hope the GPS you've ordered has bigger buttons than mine! :-) This is the thingy: http://www.globalsat.com.tw/eng/product_detail_0090.htm I hope it's going to be as simple as set and forget for each time we make landfall. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: Question re GPS and geotagging
I hope the GPS you've ordered has bigger buttons than mine! :-) This is the thingy: http://www.globalsat.com.tw/eng/product_detail_0090.htm I hope it's going to be as simple as set and forget for each time we make landfall. Jostein It looks ideal - nice and simple. I'd like to go to Antarctica. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:07:01AM +0200, AlunFoto scripsit: [snip] This is the thingy: http://www.globalsat.com.tw/eng/product_detail_0090.htm I hope it's going to be as simple as set and forget for each time we make landfall. That's, alas, right up there with Oh, I'm sure it won't rain, Hey, Bubba, hold my beer, and Oh, I'm sure they'll be fine for a minute as statements of ill omen. So I'm looking forward to the resultant story or stories; just make sure you're not the one eaten by the pack of crazed penguins. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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OMG is that public knowledge now? I thought they had a press embargo on it. On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Graydon o...@uniserve.com wrote: [snip] So I'm looking forward to the resultant story or stories; just make sure you're not the one eaten by the pack of crazed penguins. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Question re GPS and geotagging
Stan Halpin s...@stans-photography.info wrote: Aha! Blinding flash of the obvious! Thanks Ken. I am very undisciplined about taking notes. But my iPhone does have a voice- notes feature that I might be able to remember to use. voice of experience Don't bother on a windy day. /voice of experience Thanks all for your various high and low tech suggestions. stan On Oct 13, 2009, at 10:42 AM, Ken Waller wrote: Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com Subject: Re: Question re GPS and geotagging Bob W wrote: I thought it would be nice to be able to capture coordinates and roll them into the exif files so that I could look at an image in LR and see where it was shot. [This notion is based on my frustration in sorting through images I had taken in Northern Italy: now in which small fishing village was this harbor shot taken?] You could always do it the old-fashioned way and write it down in a notebook. Precisely how I do it! Or mumble into a pocket recorder. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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2009/10/13 Bob W p...@web-options.com: You could always do it the old-fashioned way and write it down in a notebook. Excuse me sir, D'you know the name of this place, and that mountain over there? Works well most of the time, I agree. My case for buying a GPS logger (it's in the mail as I write, been back-ordered since about the time this thread started) is the trip to Antarctica. There are comparatively few official names on geographical features on that continent. The UK Antarctic Survey has a comprehensive list of suggested names online, however biased towards English speaking explorers' naming. It's a decent service anyway, though, as it usually lists any known naming controversies. So, if one has a GPS location, one can look up the point in the UK service database when back home, and get a more decent set of references than any available on one particular map. For this case a GPS beats a pen and notebook, gloved hands down. :-) Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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I'd bet the crew would have a name for the places you'll visit, Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Question re GPS and geotagging 2009/10/13 Bob W p...@web-options.com: You could always do it the old-fashioned way and write it down in a notebook. Excuse me sir, D'you know the name of this place, and that mountain over there? Works well most of the time, I agree. My case for buying a GPS logger (it's in the mail as I write, been back-ordered since about the time this thread started) is the trip to Antarctica. There are comparatively few official names on geographical features on that continent. The UK Antarctic Survey has a comprehensive list of suggested names online, however biased towards English speaking explorers' naming. It's a decent service anyway, though, as it usually lists any known naming controversies. So, if one has a GPS location, one can look up the point in the UK service database when back home, and get a more decent set of references than any available on one particular map. For this case a GPS beats a pen and notebook, gloved hands down. :-) Jostein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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2009/10/14 Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com: I'd bet the crew would have a name for the places you'll visit, Likely. But few photos are taken from the bridge. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Question re GPS and geotagging 2009/10/14 Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com: I'd bet the crew would have a name for the places you'll visit, Likely. But few photos are taken from the bridge. If I were paying the kind of money these trips cost, I'd sure as hell expect to have some on board resource to identify discuss what will be seen. Cheeseman's www.cheesemans.com/a_south_georgia_oct09.html have several onboard pro photographers naturalists that are resources for the tourist photographers. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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You could always do it the old-fashioned way and write it down in a notebook. Excuse me sir, D'you know the name of this place, and that mountain over there? I should think any traveller knows where he is at any given time in this day and age, with the possible exception of Antarctica or PNG or similar places. Even there I can't imagine you would be going in without a map, an itinerary and the skills to use them. Works well most of the time, I agree. My case for buying a GPS logger (it's in the mail as I write, been back-ordered since about the time this thread started) is the trip to Antarctica. There are comparatively few official names on geographical features on that continent. I can understand the need for a GPS in a case like this. The UK Antarctic Survey has a comprehensive list of suggested names online, however biased towards English speaking explorers' naming. It's a decent service anyway, though, as it usually lists any known naming controversies. So, if one has a GPS location, one can look up the point in the UK service database when back home, and get a more decent set of references than any available on one particular map. For this case a GPS beats a pen and notebook, gloved hands down. :-) I hope the GPS you've ordered has bigger buttons than mine! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: Question re GPS and geotagging
I thought it would be nice to be able to capture coordinates and roll them into the exif files so that I could look at an image in LR and see where it was shot. [This notion is based on my frustration in sorting through images I had taken in Northern Italy: now in which small fishing village was this harbor shot taken?] You could always do it the old-fashioned way and write it down in a notebook. [...] I could find no way on my Mac or a borrowed PC to change the basemap, I found no resources for a base map of Costa Rica. I generated some log files but had no way to export them to my Mac. Why do you need a basemap in the GPS itself? I have a very basic Garmin eTrex H which doesn't support basemaps. To plot routes I use Gmap Pedometer, which is web-based and free. I load the the routes onto the GPS using EasyGPS, which is basic and free. When you have been somewhere with the GPS switched on you can download the tracks as .gpx files and use ExpertGPS to plot the tracks on Google Maps. ExpertGPS is the more sophisticated paid-for-but-still-very-cheap version of EasyGPS. Not sure if it supports Mac - have a dig around: http://www.topografix.com/. I sold the Garmin on eBay at a small loss, bought a notebook and pen. Aha! [...] roadmaps and topo maps so I don't really need a GPS except when traveling out of the country, and then more for this sort of record keeping than for route finding. I'm no expert on these things, but I think you can use even the simplest of GPSes to record you current location and export it as noted above. Google tells me that there is a program for Macs called GPSBabel which you can use to export tracks from a GPS. But as Doug noted, if one needs to have yet another battery enabled device, it might as well serve multiple purposes. Can any of you tell me if there is a unit/system that meets the following critera? a. Mac compatible software for the GPS management b. Handheld unit c. Simple changeout of the relevant basemap for a region d. Availability of reasonably detailed basemaps for most/all regions of the world. e. Simple export of log files. f. Reasonable accuracy, quick startup and signal acquisition g. At least 16-hour battery life or easily interchangeable batteries h. Simple (Mac compatible) software to synch log files with exif data. Oh, and of course low cost. There's the rub... Basemaps alone are hideously expensive. When I was playing around before buying my GPS I used a number of free trial maps, and was deeply unimpressed by them, and found the online resources much more useable and useful. I did note that the Satmap Active10 has a very good reputation, but it is very expensive. http://www.stanfords.co.uk/stock/satmap-active10-162665/ I'm coming to the conclusion that GPSes are becoming another of the devices that seem like a good idea, but just end up overcomplicating our lives. For me the eTrex H is ideal. I can fit it to the handlebars of my bike so I don't have to keep getting off to check a map; it will tell me where I am if I'm lost, and where I've been when I find myself again, and if I really need that much accuracy on my photos I can probably find some freeware to match the tracks against the exif data. This page includes some links to software that links GPS tracks and exif data: http://macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/06/15/gps_photo.html However, is that much accuracy really necessary? GPS locations on the UK grid are to 10 places, which is theoretically accurate to about a 1-metre square, I think, but since the allowable variance on the device is well outside that you're not really going to be able to trust the reference to that level. If you're a scientist plotting the position of rare orchids that you're photographing you're probably not going to be more accurate than a few square metres anyway. So if it's just a means of remembering which fishing village you were in on a given date, isn't this all overkill anyway? stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Question re GPS and geotagging
Bob W wrote: I thought it would be nice to be able to capture coordinates and roll them into the exif files so that I could look at an image in LR and see where it was shot. [This notion is based on my frustration in sorting through images I had taken in Northern Italy: now in which small fishing village was this harbor shot taken?] You could always do it the old-fashioned way and write it down in a notebook. Precisely how I do it! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Question re GPS and geotagging
Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com Subject: Re: Question re GPS and geotagging Bob W wrote: I thought it would be nice to be able to capture coordinates and roll them into the exif files so that I could look at an image in LR and see where it was shot. [This notion is based on my frustration in sorting through images I had taken in Northern Italy: now in which small fishing village was this harbor shot taken?] You could always do it the old-fashioned way and write it down in a notebook. Precisely how I do it! Or mumble into a pocket recorder. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On 13/10/09, Ken Waller, discombobulated, unleashed: Or mumble into a pocket recorder. When I used the 1DmII I used to use the audio recording facility sometimes - up to 30 seconds per shot. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Aha! Blinding flash of the obvious! Thanks Ken. I am very undisciplined about taking notes. But my iPhone does have a voice- notes feature that I might be able to remember to use. Thanks all for your various high and low tech suggestions. stan On Oct 13, 2009, at 10:42 AM, Ken Waller wrote: Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com Subject: Re: Question re GPS and geotagging Bob W wrote: I thought it would be nice to be able to capture coordinates and roll them into the exif files so that I could look at an image in LR and see where it was shot. [This notion is based on my frustration in sorting through images I had taken in Northern Italy: now in which small fishing village was this harbor shot taken?] You could always do it the old-fashioned way and write it down in a notebook. Precisely how I do it! Or mumble into a pocket recorder. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
