New Sony GPS Camera Accessory
 

Hi All,

Sony has announced a new GPS unit for its digital cameras and camcorders
to record the position of every shot. Details are at:
http://www.dimagemaker.com/article.php?articleID=673

Cheers,

Wayne
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New Sony GPS Camera Accessory
 

"Wayne J. Cosshall" wrote in message
...
Hi All,

Sony has announced a new GPS unit for its digital cameras and camcorders
to record the position of every shot. Details are at:
http://www.dimagemaker.com/article.php?articleID=673



Welcome to 4 months ago.

New Sony GPS Camera Accessory
 

Wayne J. Cosshall wrote:

Sony has announced a new GPS unit for its digital cameras and camcorders
to record the position of every shot. Details are at:


It sounds like other software could use the output of this device so
other cameras could be supported. Perhaps something like Picasa will
support it?

Anyone heard of any leanings in that direction?

New Sony GPS Camera Accessory
 

Wayne J. Cosshall wrote:
Hi All,

Sony has announced a new GPS unit for its digital cameras and camcorders
to record the position of every shot. Details are at:
http://www.dimagemaker.com/article.php?articleID=673

Cheers,

Wayne
Sounds like software could easily be written to match the time and date
stamps with any tracklog from any GPS unit. Not need to buy Sony's
doubtless pricey solution.

New Sony GPS Camera Accessory
 

Ron Hunter wrote:
Wayne J. Cosshall wrote:
Hi All,

Sony has announced a new GPS unit for its digital cameras and camcorders
to record the position of every shot. Details are at:
http://www.dimagemaker.com/article.php?articleID=673

Cheers,

Wayne
Sounds like software could easily be written to match the time and date
stamps with any tracklog from any GPS unit. Not need to buy Sony's
doubtless pricey solution.

As far as I can tell the Sony product has a MSRP of $129
CDN(http://www.sonystyle.ca/commerce/ser...ductId=1003212)
and has built in flash memory, gps, software for recording time and gps
location, a battery that runs it for 31 hours and a usb connection for
downloading to computer.

I don't think there are other GPS units at that price (I have one that
connects to a laptop that cost less but carrying around a laptop and
having to recharge every few hours seems like a less than optimum
solution).

New Sony GPS Camera Accessory
 

"Brian Sullivan"
It sounds like other software could use the output of this device so
other cameras could be supported. Perhaps something like Picasa will
support it?

Anyone heard of any leanings in that direction?


Actually, I believe you don't need their hardware. I develop GPS based
applications, and thinking about it, if you have a tracklog recorded in a
given format (NMEA is common to most, if not all, GPS devices), it shouldn't
be difficult to write an application that goes through a folder where your
pictures are stored and match the date picture was taken from the EXIF, and
get the coordinate from the tracklog file at that time, and write back to
the EXIF.

I would create such a software easily, but I doubt that nobody thought about
it yet.

Cheers

Padu

New Sony GPS Camera Accessory
 

Brian Sullivan wrote:
Wayne J. Cosshall wrote:


Sony has announced a new GPS unit for its digital cameras and camcorders
to record the position of every shot. Details are at:



It sounds like other software could use the output of this device so
other cameras could be supported. Perhaps something like Picasa will
support it?

Anyone heard of any leanings in that direction?


I think there is plenty of reoom in the exif/meta file.... am I right in
thinking I saw a gps section in PS filebrowser?

kosh

New Sony GPS Camera Accessory
 

Padu wrote:
"Brian Sullivan"

It sounds like other software could use the output of this device so
other cameras could be supported. Perhaps something like Picasa will
support it?

Anyone heard of any leanings in that direction?



Actually, I believe you don't need their hardware. I develop GPS based
applications, and thinking about it, if you have a tracklog recorded in a
given format (NMEA is common to most, if not all, GPS devices), it shouldn't
be difficult to write an application that goes through a folder where your
pictures are stored and match the date picture was taken from the EXIF, and
get the coordinate from the tracklog file at that time, and write back to
the EXIF.

I would create such a software easily, but I doubt that nobody thought about
it yet.

Cheers

Padu



well someone thought it was good enough to make a product!!!! Perhaps
there is something to it, though I can't imagine a LARGE numbr of people
having a requirement like this..

real estate
military
surveyors
reporters who have a large number of images and travel lots
????

hmmmm heres an idea.... if you could photograph say... a city from
multiple anges with full GPS data including elevation..... I would think
some clever software could give you amazing 3d photogrpahic renderings.

come to think of it, one of my customers used their camera to record
every inch of Melb. GP to make photo realistic game textures..... GPS
data would probably be pretty usefull there too!

just think aloud.... well in text!

kosh

New Sony GPS Camera Accessory
 

"Bobby" wrote in message
u...
Sony has announced a new GPS unit for its digital cameras and camcorders
to record the position of every shot. Details are at:
http://www.dimagemaker.com/article.php?articleID=673


Welcome to 4 months ago.

Yes, has even been on TV, "beyond tomorrow" or whatever the show is called.

MrT.

New Sony GPS Camera Accessory
 

kosh wrote:
Padu wrote:
"Brian Sullivan"

It sounds like other software could use the output of this device so
other cameras could be supported. Perhaps something like Picasa will
support it?

Anyone heard of any leanings in that direction?



Actually, I believe you don't need their hardware. I develop GPS based
applications, and thinking about it, if you have a tracklog recorded
in a given format (NMEA is common to most, if not all, GPS devices),
it shouldn't be difficult to write an application that goes through a
folder where your pictures are stored and match the date picture was
taken from the EXIF, and get the coordinate from the tracklog file at
that time, and write back to the EXIF.

I would create such a software easily, but I doubt that nobody thought
about it yet.

Cheers

Padu


well someone thought it was good enough to make a product!!!! Perhaps
there is something to it, though I can't imagine a LARGE numbr of people
having a requirement like this..

real estate
military
surveyors
reporters who have a large number of images and travel lots
????
Apparently it links with Google-Earth, so you can go to a spot, and then
look at the photos you took there. Not a very practical purpose, but I'm
sure if you look at who a lot of Sony's customers are (cashed up
20-somethings who like gadgets, and will buy anything so long as it says
S O N Y), that there will be quite a few who would go for such gizmos.