Thu 6 Sep 2007
The day before heading back to Cork, I splashed out on an Olympus e510 DSLR. It’s got an inch-thick manual so I’m still using it as a slightly-more-advanced point-and-click. I have a lot to learn, but I’m looking forward to it!
I also got myself a GPS data logger. So when I got back to Barcelona, I used the up-and-coming locr application to GPS-location-tag my photos (based on the times the photos were taken and the locations logged in the GPS.)
While we were in Cork (nearly a month), the weather was fairly dire for the first 10 days, then it turned nice just as Mar & I headed off to Sherkin Island in West Cork. I’ve put a few photos of that trip up on Picasa (the left photo will bring you to the ’standard’ Picasa interface, the right photo will bring you to the Google Maps interface with photos strewn around a rather low-resolution image of Sherkin Island. Note that there are more roads on the island than Google thinks!) Edit: apparently Apple’s Safari browser has problems with Picasa. Use firefox instead – it’s much better!
The Free Geography Tools site has an excellent write-up of using locr here. Shame I didn’t discover it until I’d found the locr bugs for myself! All in all, however, a relatively painless operation…
June 26th, 2008 at 17:58
What software are you using to retrieve GPS track data from the GPS logger?
The reason I am asking this is because the original software that BT-Q1000 is crashing about half-way when trying to download track data. Perhaps it happens because logger’s memory filled up with log entries and that’s too much data. But still – they should have tested for situations like this.
June 26th, 2008 at 18:06
Have you downloaded the latest version of their software (2.4)?
I’ve never let mine get more than half-full, and that was with more than a week of photos, etc – I always use the ‘every 10 seconds’ setting. In the extreme, you might have to bite the bullet and just erase all data on it