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New Sony GPS Camera Accessory
"Dave Martindale" wrote in message ... Ron Hunter writes: The GPS described doesn't have a display, which accounts for the lower price, and the long battery life. It isn't a full-fledged GPS at all, just a way of recording time and position stamps, which many 'GPS enabled' cell phones do for even less. In short, I am not impressed by either the price, or the capabilities. GPS enabled cell phones generally do their thing with the aid of data provided by the cell sites they are normally listening to. Go someplace without cellular coverage (or coverage that your phone is not compatible with) and you'll get no position data at all. On the other hand, this seems to be a full-fledged GPS receiver, in the sense that it's capable of determining its position without outside help. That makes it cost more, but worth more, than a cell phone's GPS functions. It's still not a consumer GPS unit with display and user interface; it's just a position logger. But that's exactly what is needed to work with an arbitrary digital camera. (It would be even nicer to have a camera with integrated GPS receiver). Dave I seem to have missed something here. Does the GPS info attached to the photo give a degrees coordinate or a an actual location? That is, does it include something like an address? To do so presumably it would need a built in map as well in. Otherwise it will give you what my navigation device does, and that is a set of lat/ lon coordinates which to my mind is not going to be all that clear to the average user. Bill |
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