Max

I realize that regular Garmins etc. can be used for this purpose - but I thought for the price, this is hard to beat:

Costco - ATP Photo Finder Geotagging Data GPS Picture Tracker Built in Reader: SD/SDHC, MS/MSPD

Andy

That's interesting. Seems a little difficult to use since you have have to remove your camera's memory card at each picture. But this could be very useful to some folks.

Max

I think we read a different description

Keith

You still have to take the memory card out and put it in the device before you move, right? Sounds like an annoyance to me, unless you're taking a lot of pictures while standing in the same spot.

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Max

Not as I read it..you just click the device on when your taking photos and it appears to run something like a garmin track and stamps a time/date waypoint.
When you get home (or are done taking photos) you put your card in it and it matches the time/date of the waypoints to time date of photos and voila - geotags!


If it wasn't so much coinage I'd give it a shot just to see how it works.

Keith

Hmm. I don't see how that would work... I guess you would have to sync up the date/time of the camera and the device down to the second to make it match.Not to mention, you'd have to press the shutter button and the button on the device at EXACTLY the same time.

Then what if you're taking pictures in rapid succession?

I just don't see how it works I guess.

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Max

hee hee, well unless you're flying at 1000 fps, rounding it down to one second intervals is probably tight enough

I've never used it - but I wasn't sure how someone could ask so much for a device such as this so I read more.


From what I read - the current geotagging software(s) work on either manual sequence or time association just like this thing does, I think .

Andy

I was reading it the same was Keith did.

I wonder if it just records a waypoint at specific intervals. Then when you load your pictures into it, it reads the time/day stamp in the image and compares it to a type of tracklog, matching it's waypoint to the same day/time you snapped the photo.

I would think you could do this with software without having to buy additional hardware. If you are already using a GPS to record a track log, I wonder if there is software out there to read a log file and pull in photos from a folder that have the same/similar time stamps.

Max

You're starting to get it

This eliminates the whole "PC/Software" thing for matchmaking though...and if you don't already have a GPS (like me ) then you don't need one just to tag photos.

Read this - it will make sense after that:
http://www.costco.com/images/content...PDF/276696.pdf

dav

It does sound exactly like what I do, except it is a standalone device you take with you, whereas my PC is left at home.

My GPS has to be on, and with me. I take pictures normally. At some future point I download my tracklog to RoboGEO and download my pictures to my PC as I normally would anyway.

Then I tell RoboGEO where the new pictures are, it matches them to my tracklog, and "poof", they are all geo-tagged.

Yes, I did synch my GPS and my camera internal clock, but unless you are taking pictures really close together yet very far apart distance-wise (in which case I want to know how you are doing it!) then there is no problem. If you take 4 shots a second, they are pretty obviously going to be quite close together.

Unless as someone mentioned you are in a fighter jet, but then geo-tagging is kind of meaningless...

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I need to add that I think that is a good price for what it does, but it seems so superfluous. You cannot really use a digital camera unless you have a PC, and "doing it in the field" instead of waiting until you get home seems like no big deal.

But if you do not have AND do not want a GPS, I guess it would be a good thing!

Andy

The Costco thing looks good and not badly priced if you didn't want to buy a GPS and still wanted location information with your photos.

For everyone else like Dav mentioned, RoboGEO does the same thing. Might as well just buy that for half the price of the costco product.

dav

It also occurs to me to wonder why anyone would want to geo-tag photos if they do not have a GPS.

I can come up with reasons, but not good ones!

Andy

The costco things mentions integration with Google Earth. Maybe just for that?

I can't think of any good reasons either.

Akiliya

My ideal GPS devoice should include the fellows: first, easy to install and use, because I don’t like to set complicated things. Second, catch GPS info quickly, and accurately. Third, do not affect any function that my camera has, like hotshoe and 10-pin shutter. And it is really small so I can carry it everywhere freely. Easytagger GPS fills all of them, I love it.

RyszardS

TURnika also allows you to combine images from suit based on the EXIF data (GPS position or the date and time of photos)

TURnika

linon

I have a geotag fever, it’s of great fun. When I see the route that I walked during a hiking on map, I would feel excited. My Easytagger record all that, which is called route tracking. It is amazing! I bought it online, and there are all kinds of accessories available on its website. http://www.e-geotag.com/accessories.aspx.