After a disasterous first attempt at photo geotagging in Rio de Janeiro last year – I’ve just purchased a Sony GPS-CS1. I’ll give my geo photo convergence dream a second chance in Costa Rica later this month. In Brazil I carried a Magellan eXplorist 100 Handheld GPS Navigator but found that the device would reset and lose the logged points even under normal conditions. I even tried using the technique whereby after each photo you take a photo of the unit to later extract the lat/long yourself, but the thought of the manual processing killed this within a few photos. I want to geotag my photos, but I don’t want it that badly. Late in the trip I took the unit into the ocean, and despite its waterproof claims it fried quickly and became unusable. I finally threw the unit out a few weeks ago.

So, I’m excited by the new product – the fact I can just leave it on and running during an outing – doing an auto merge using RoboGeo when I get home has me thinking this actually might work this time. I’ll post results when I have some.