Paul Cowles » gps http://www.paulcowles.com on-going Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:39:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Photo geotagging http://www.paulcowles.com/2006/10/05/photo-geotagging/ http://www.paulcowles.com/2006/10/05/photo-geotagging/#comments Fri, 06 Oct 2006 04:30:50 +0000 paulcowles http://www.paulcowles.com/2006/10/05/photo-geotagging/ 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.

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