RE: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-18 Thread Stig Vidar
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

Re: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-18 Thread AlunFoto
: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

Re: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-18 Thread Doug Brewer
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

Re: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-17 Thread Rob Studdert
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

Re: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-16 Thread SV Hovland
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

Re: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-15 Thread AlunFoto
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 --

RE: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-15 Thread Bob W
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

Re: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-15 Thread Graydon
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

Re: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-15 Thread Bob Sullivan
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

Re: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-14 Thread mike wilson
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

Re: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-14 Thread AlunFoto
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

Re: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-14 Thread Ken Waller
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

Re: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-14 Thread AlunFoto
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

Re: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-14 Thread Ken Waller
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

RE: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-14 Thread Bob W
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

RE: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-13 Thread Bob W
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

Re: OT: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-13 Thread eckinator
Howdy Doug I have the Legend HCx (same model line I believe) and want to do the same, would you mind sharing your experience/advice, please? Cheers Ecke 2009/10/13 Doug Franklin jehosep...@mindspring.com: I've got an eTrex Vista HCx and I've been very happy with it.  However, I haven't pushed

Re: OT: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-13 Thread Rob Studdert
On 13/10/2009, Alastair Robertson kiwibiolog...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I would have agreed with everything Mark said about the accuracy and - that is until I got my latest GPS a Garmin GPSmap 60Cx. It works astonishingly well even in thick forest - the improvement is out of this world - it even

Re: OT: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-13 Thread Mark Roberts
Peter Loveday wrote: My current GPS is a Garmin Etrex Vista. Is that the original Vista or the HCx version - which is supposedly much better sensitivity? I have the HCx - great sensitivity and locks onto satellites *fast*. Downside? Try reading the display without glasses if you're over

Re: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-13 Thread Mark Roberts
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

Re: OT: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-13 Thread Doug Franklin
Hi Ecke, eckinator wrote: Howdy Doug I have the Legend HCx (same model line I believe) and want to do the same, would you mind sharing your experience/advice, please? Probably the best place to start is my travelogue from that trip to Bulgaria. http://NutDriver.org/plovdiv/index.shtml

Re: OT: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-13 Thread Doug Franklin
Mark Roberts wrote: Peter Loveday wrote: My current GPS is a Garmin Etrex Vista. Is that the original Vista or the HCx version - which is supposedly much better sensitivity? I have the HCx - great sensitivity and locks onto satellites *fast*. Downside? Try reading the display without

Re: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-13 Thread Ken Waller
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

Re: OT: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-13 Thread Mark Roberts
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:23:11 -0400, you wrote: Mark Roberts wrote: Peter Loveday wrote: My current GPS is a Garmin Etrex Vista. Is that the original Vista or the HCx version - which is supposedly much better sensitivity? I have the HCx - great sensitivity and locks onto satellites

Re: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-13 Thread Cotty
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 --

Re: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-13 Thread Stan Halpin
: 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

OT: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-12 Thread Stan Halpin
18-24 months ago I started thinking about an planned trip to Costa Rica which would happen in June 2008. 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

Re: OT: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-12 Thread Alastair Robertson
I like my Garmin handheld - there's a variety of models - I would get one of the mapping units https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=145. The GPSMap 60 claims 28 hours of battery life the units do come with a simple basemap and getting detailed maps for some regions of the world is tricky -

Re: OT: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-12 Thread Mark Roberts
A few thoughts: I've owned several handheld GPS units, all either Magellan or Garmin. I've found all the Magellans to be much more user friendly. For the past couple of years I've been working on a book about hiking and photographing on the extensive trail system around Grandfather Mountain.

Re: OT: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-12 Thread Alastair Robertson
Hi I would have agreed with everything Mark said about the accuracy and - that is until I got my latest GPS a Garmin GPSmap 60Cx. It works astonishingly well even in thick forest - the improvement is out of this world - it even works inside buldings! It's something to do with the new chip that's

Re: OT: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-12 Thread Mark Roberts
Alastair Robertson wrote: Hi I would have agreed with everything Mark said about the accuracy and - that is until I got my latest GPS a Garmin GPSmap 60Cx. It works astonishingly well even in thick forest - the improvement is out of this world - it even works inside buldings! It's something to

Re: OT: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-12 Thread Peter Loveday
My current GPS is a Garmin Etrex Vista. Is that the original Vista or the HCx version - which is supposedly much better sensitivity? Thanks - Peter -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the

Re: OT: Question re GPS and geotagging

2009-10-12 Thread Doug Franklin
Peter Loveday wrote: My current GPS is a Garmin Etrex Vista. Is that the original Vista or the HCx version - which is supposedly much better sensitivity? I've got an eTrex Vista HCx and I've been very happy with it. However, I haven't pushed it all that hard. I was lucky enough to find