GPS Usage for Backpacking in Europe
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From: tim.... on 14 Nov 2009 07:02 "Gerald Oliver Swift" <goswift(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:hdkcif$qm9$1(a)aioe.org... > > "Darkstar87695" <Darkstar87695.41llrb(a)no-mx.forums.travel.com> wrote in > message news:Darkstar87695.41llrb(a)no-mx.forums.travel.com... >> >> Hey everyone, I'm an 18 year old from Florida and I have always wanted >> to travel. In a few years I will be taking a summer to go to Europe. I >> will be backpacking from Greece all the way to the UK. I have not >> finished planning this trip and will be using this site for that also, >> but i have a quick question for everyone. Would a hand-held GPS be a >> good investment for this trip? and if so then which one do u suggest? > > Preferably one that uses a different charger to the ones you must already > carry for your > a) mobile phone > b) spare mobile phone > c) I-pod / mp3 player > d) digital camera > e) video camera > f) portable DVD-player > g) portable note-book > h) electric shaver / epilator who the hell takes a digital camera and a video camera. (anyone as well versed in technology as this list implies is going to have one camera that does both) (I don't take b, c, f or g and h doesn't need a charger) tim
From: tim.... on 14 Nov 2009 07:03 "Andreas H. Zappel" <az-deletethis(a)ch-is.net> wrote in message news:7sjsf5dgp85dc3r569a8jt61iueju45qb9(a)4ax.com... > Alfred Molon <alfred_molon(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >>By the way, most people travel only with a mobile phone, notebook, >>digital camera and a shaver (and of course some clothes and a >>toothbrush). > > Tell me, what are the clothes and the toothbrush for? > In every city you can find shops to buy new clothes and a toothbrush. Why take a camera, in most towns you can find a shop selling postcards tim
From: tim.... on 14 Nov 2009 07:06 "Alfred Molon" <alfred_molon(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:MPG.2567e0893db28fc298c1b1(a)news.supernews.com... > In article <Darkstar87695.41llrb(a)no-mx.forums.travel.com>, Darkstar87695 > says... >> >> Hey everyone, I'm an 18 year old from Florida and I have always wanted >> to travel. In a few years I will be taking a summer to go to Europe. I >> will be backpacking from Greece all the way to the UK. I have not >> finished planning this trip and will be using this site for that also, >> but i have a quick question for everyone. Would a hend held GPS be a >> good investment for this trip? and if so then which one do u suggest?:D > > I don't have an answer, but I'm also looking for such a thing, to be > able to assign the GPS coordinates to the photos I take. A GPS logger > would suffice for the purpose, but I've been thinking that a unit with a > screen and maps would be more interesting (as long as it has a logging > capability). I know a company who are trying to persuade camera manufactures to put GPS in their cameras for such a purpose. I don't think they're having much luck (BICBW) tim
From: Rik Brown on 14 Nov 2009 10:32 tim....;3058246 Wrote: > I know a company who are trying to persuade camera manufactures to put > GPS > in their cameras for such a purpose. > > I don't think they're having much luck (BICBW) I know that at least one camera has been built with internal GPS. I believe its made by Nikon. Otherwise, there are small GPS tracker units for camera users that log your coordinates/time throughout the day so that later the pictures taken can automatically be linked up (using software) to their proper location via their time stamp. I've seen these on Amazon.com. -- Rik -- Rik Brown Share your experiences in the forums, blogs, videos, and online community at 'TRAVEL.com' (http://forums.TRAVEL.com). Message origin: www.TRAVEL.com
From: Alfred Molon on 14 Nov 2009 11:32
In article <0001HW.C724471B00245EF2B02919BF(a)news.virginmedia.com>, Mike Lane says... > I'm also trying to find a good way to do exactly that. The problem I've found > with most GPS data loggers is that they seem designed to record a track log > of a single trip with an enormous number of points (often recording at 1 > point per second), which you then download to a computer to process. I am > looking for something which I can take away for three weeks or more, storing > one or more tracks each day before I finally return and download them all for > processing. You can set these units to record every 5s or longer. Not a problem having a very large number of points, because these units come with sufficient internal storage for three weeks or longer. Back at home you can load the log files into your computer and for instance see with Google earth where yiu have been. By the way no need to process these logs - you use them to check where you have been at a certain time/date. > My solution so far is to use an ordinary handheld GPS unit and record a > waypoint when I take a photo. That is too cumbersome for me - always have to pull out the GPS unit before each photo, switch it on and log the coordinates before I can take a photo. > I will then end up with several hundred > waypoints on the GPS which can be matched to the images using the image > file's time and date stamp. I can then geotag the images by copying the > coordinates into the image file's EXIF metadata. It's rather laborious and > not ideal, but it's a lot better than nothing You can try one of these GPS loggers, which you switch on in the morning and attach to your backpack or belt and then carry with you. I was thinking of buying such a unit, but it would be cool to have a GPS logger with a display and maps. In standard mode it's in your backpack and automatically logs your coordinates, in case you get lost you can use it to determine your position and find the way back. Is there any unit like this? -- Alfred Molon http://www.molon.de - Photos of Asia, Africa and Europe |