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Digital Photo wrote:
I want to use a GPS to record the location where I took a picture. Do any of you know of one that records the location, and time when the waypoint is marked? I had to go check, but my Magellan GPS 315 does record the date and time for waypoints. It makes sense since it has to know the exact date and time to determine the location. It is not on all the displays however. I had to look to find it. I have found some interesting uses for it. For example my girlfriend is into genealogy and I am able to not only find small graveyards on old maps that are now in the back 40 of some farmer's fields, but I am able to then mark the exact spot of a specific stone so the location can be found later. The time and date was has not been all that important, but now, I know I can mark and photograph a item and not bother making up a name or writing down information at that time because, I can figure it out later by using the time on the GPS and Photo. -- Joseph E. Meehan 26 + 6 = 1 It's Irish Math |
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As others have said, recording the time is a standard feature on GPS
units. On a bike trip in the Rockies, it was quite easy to determine the location of photographs after the trip by comparing the time of the photo with the track log from my Garmin Etrex Vista (a very nice unit for hiking or biking). I posted the coordinates of each picture on my website, along with a map showing the location. See http://www.scotland-stewart.com/SanJ...sjsphotos.html Tom "Digital Photo" wrote in message . com... I want to use a GPS to record the location where I took a picture. Do any of you know of one that records the location, and time when the waypoint is marked? |
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Joseph Meehan wrote:
Digital Photo wrote: I want to use a GPS to record the location where I took a picture. Do any of you know of one that records the location, and time when the waypoint is marked? I had to go check, but my Magellan GPS 315 does record the date and time for waypoints. It makes sense since it has to know the exact date and time to determine the location. It is not on all the displays however. I had to look to find it. I have found some interesting uses for it. For example my girlfriend is into genealogy and I am able to not only find small graveyards on old maps that are now in the back 40 of some farmer's fields, but I am able to then mark the exact spot of a specific stone so the location can be found later. The time and date was has not been all that important, but now, I know I can mark and photograph a item and not bother making up a name or writing down information at that time because, I can figure it out later by using the time on the GPS and Photo. Just make SURE you sychronize the camera time to the GPS before you go out as the clocks in most cameras aren't all that accurate while that in the GPS is set by the atomic clock in the GPS satellite. |
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Joseph Meehan wrote:
Digital Photo wrote: I want to use a GPS to record the location where I took a picture. Do any of you know of one that records the location, and time when the waypoint is marked? I had to go check, but my Magellan GPS 315 does record the date and time for waypoints. It makes sense since it has to know the exact date and time to determine the location. It is not on all the displays however. I had to look to find it. I have found some interesting uses for it. For example my girlfriend is into genealogy and I am able to not only find small graveyards on old maps that are now in the back 40 of some farmer's fields, but I am able to then mark the exact spot of a specific stone so the location can be found later. The time and date was has not been all that important, but now, I know I can mark and photograph a item and not bother making up a name or writing down information at that time because, I can figure it out later by using the time on the GPS and Photo. Just make SURE you sychronize the camera time to the GPS before you go out as the clocks in most cameras aren't all that accurate while that in the GPS is set by the atomic clock in the GPS satellite. |
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Hi
I don't know if you know so I'll mention it anyway Most GPS units have a measurement accuracy or inaccuracy. It would be fine if it was consistent day-in & day-out, but it is not It varies with signal and satellite availability and also with weather conditions. The reason I mention this is because you may return to bang the same co-ords as on the GPS and be up to 30 yards from what you wanted to find. That being said & writ GPS units are mega-phun! As some posters have writ already the GPS clock (once it has settled down in location) is v v v accurate This is the best to way to set your camera clock. Now a combo GPS & camera? Sheesh - that is a thought! I believe MS set a researcher out with GPS and camera - I wonder what happened to the project? Arty Arty Artio "Digital Photo" wrote in message om... I want to use a GPS to record the location where I took a picture. Do any of you know of one that records the location, and time when the waypoint is marked? |
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Hi
I don't know if you know so I'll mention it anyway Most GPS units have a measurement accuracy or inaccuracy. It would be fine if it was consistent day-in & day-out, but it is not It varies with signal and satellite availability and also with weather conditions. The reason I mention this is because you may return to bang the same co-ords as on the GPS and be up to 30 yards from what you wanted to find. That being said & writ GPS units are mega-phun! As some posters have writ already the GPS clock (once it has settled down in location) is v v v accurate This is the best to way to set your camera clock. Now a combo GPS & camera? Sheesh - that is a thought! I believe MS set a researcher out with GPS and camera - I wonder what happened to the project? Arty Arty Artio "Digital Photo" wrote in message om... I want to use a GPS to record the location where I took a picture. Do any of you know of one that records the location, and time when the waypoint is marked? |
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Ron Hunter wrote:
time on the GPS and Photo. Just make SURE you sychronize the camera time to the GPS before you go out as the clocks in most cameras aren't all that accurate while that in the GPS is set by the atomic clock in the GPS satellite. Ah, one more reason for occasionally downloading pix from the camera vs. a card reader; some cameras auto synch to the time of the computer, which in the case of at least Macs running osX, themselves auto-synch to atomic clocks. -- John McWilliams |
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Ron Hunter wrote:
time on the GPS and Photo. Just make SURE you sychronize the camera time to the GPS before you go out as the clocks in most cameras aren't all that accurate while that in the GPS is set by the atomic clock in the GPS satellite. Ah, one more reason for occasionally downloading pix from the camera vs. a card reader; some cameras auto synch to the time of the computer, which in the case of at least Macs running osX, themselves auto-synch to atomic clocks. -- John McWilliams |
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John McWilliams writes:
... which in the case of at least Macs running osX, themselves auto-synch to atomic clocks. Macs are furnished with atomic clocks? -- Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly. |
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John McWilliams writes:
... which in the case of at least Macs running osX, themselves auto-synch to atomic clocks. Macs are furnished with atomic clocks? -- Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly. |
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