GPS Logger Put to the Test
Monday, February 18, 2008 at 17:28 We went to the Hoge Veluwe in Gelderland last weekend for some 'serious' photography. This would be the first real trail for my GPS Logger (Qstarz BT1000).
At the 'start' I switched the logger to 'Log', and forgot about it completely during the day. The device did its work during the day. The real challenge came at home. Linking the GPS info to the photo's.....
The software for adding the GPS data to the photo's was 'GPSPhotoLinker' (remember that I use a Mac). Unfortunately, the software kept crashing when I tried to combine GPS data and the images. Possible reason could be the large NEF (Nikon RAW) files, because the crash happened every third image.
So the search for an alternative started, and I quickly found 'PhotoGPSEditor' (also DonationWare). This tool could also manipulate NEF files.
Adding the GPS info was relatively easy with this software (GPSPhotoLinker is more intuitive IMO). After that I imported the photo's in Adobe Lightroom, which showed the GPS data in the Metadata section of Lightroom (you can see the map location when you click on the arrow behind the GPS coordinates.
Just click on the following picture, to see when and where it was taken.
The complete set can be seen here.
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Reader Comments (4)
Good to see more and more people interested in photo geocoding!
Did you give HoudahGeo http://www.houdah.com/houdahGeo" rel="nofollow"> http://www.houdah.com/houdahGeo a try?
I really think you should. Granted it is not free, but it isn't all that expensive either.
You will find it to be the most intuitive solution available. BTW, it also supports direct Flickr upload!
Pierre
Hello Pierre,
at the moment the PhotoGPSEditor is more than enough for me (after I figured out what to do with the offset). The flickr upload possibility is nice, but not necessary for me (atm).
So you found a Apple - Nikon - Lightroom data logger solution? I use apple and acciently bought a Gisteq GPS logger assuming it would work on Mac. Not...
@Pieter; There's a Amod GPS device which uses a mass storage drive to store the GPS logs. Apart from that, you're basically confined to the BT-747 compatible devices and use the Sourceforge MKT application