On 11/13/2016 5:20 PM, Mike Gordon via olympus wrote:
jh writes:
<<Was the tracking of those co-ordinates a feature of each camera or did you
carry a GPS device from which those co-ordinates were obtained?
. . . Moose's baby Garmin may be more than tad a more accurate
Out in the open like these shots, the i-gotU should be quite accurate, as is a phone. Where the Garmin is much better is
under tree cover. Even in redwood forest, it's able to keep track of where it is, when the i-gotU and iPhone generate
largely random locations.
but this thing has been bomb proof. One can sync with multiple cams w/o running
down the cam batteries if the cam(s) has a gps chip.
Until recently, I've been highly unimpressed with the GPS built into cameras. Incredibly slow to make initial location
determination, and drawing down batteries too fast. The i-gotU obviously has a smaller battery than the cameras, but
runs for many hours.
The Oly TG-4 is somewhat different. There is a utility program that downloads A-GPS data, which really speeds up
satellite acquisition. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS>
Unlike cell/wi-fi devices, the data is stored in the camera, and must be updated regularly. Sony and Panny, at least,
are also using this technique on newer cameras with GPS.
Oly and Panny, and undoubtedly others, when connected to a smart phone/tablet, can use the GPS data from the other
device to geotag images.
I still think the stand-alone GPS unit or a GPX track from a smart device is the most reliable way to geotag with the
cameras I have.
Flexible Position Moose
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