SONY GPS-CS1
By Daved | Permalink |
5 comments | January 4th, 2008 | Trackback
This is one of those things that sound cool, but how many people really need one? Short of scientists living in the bush or a National Geographic photographer, how many people need to know exactly here there picture was taken? If you are one such person, you’re in luck.
Sony has created a device the will track your photographs via GPS and tell you exactly where they were taken. This device is called the SONY GPS-CS1 and cost about $150. I suppose that’s a cheap price to pay if this is something you need.
The SONY GPS-CS1 works by using the devices location recordings and your cameras time stamp. Basically, you clip the small gps unit to your jacket, camera strap, etc. The SONY GPS-CS1 monitors and records your location and stores it in the unit. Assuming you have the correct time stamp on your camera, your digital camera will mark each photo with a specific time stamp.
Once you connect the SONY GPS-CS1 and your camera to your computer, the SONY GPS-CS1 software syncs the times location on the GPS with the time stamps on the photo. Allowing you to know exactly when and where your photo was taken. The SONY GPS-CS1 software can also compile a gooogle map for you with your pictures already loaded on to the map.
Id be interested to hear what you think about this little toy. Do you think this is something average traveler would want or need? Or do you think this is something more geared toward the research community?
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This is a great first step but it would be even better if your camera stored the gps location in the EXIF data with the picture. See there are lots of sites that use this information when you post your photos on-line and make it possible to pin your photos to a map. Great for travel logs.
How many gadgets do we own just because it looks cool. Most of us don’t need the many gadgets we posses and this is one of the many.
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I am a writer for Missouri Life and Vacation Days magazines, and we are interested in doing a short profile of your Sony GPS CS-1. It would be in our Vacation Days magazine, and it would just be a brief description of the product and the features it offers
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How many people really need one? A lot of people. I’ve got all kinds of unidentifiable travel photos — Roman ruins, Irish villages, Hawaiian waterfalls, etc. Yeah, I could have labeled every photo as soon as I got home (or as soon as I had the film developed, back in the day) while I remembered where things were. I always mean to and almost never do, but I know I’m not the only one who doesn’t. Something like this is also cool for hikers or other outdoor enthusiasts — you know generally where you were that day, but if you did a 10 mile hike, you aren’t necessarily going to remember exactly where a particular shot was taken.
While this Sony device is cool, you don’t need this specific one if you have some type of GPS that lets you save track logs. There is/was a project at Microsoft
Research called the World Wide Media Exchange — among other things, they created a utility that does the same thing with the track log from any GPS. It’s kind of rough and doesn’t have a lot of features, but it’s free and it works to geotag your photos. The original site is http://wwmx.org, but the download links seem to be disabled at the moment. An alternate download site at http://research.microsoft.com/research/downloads/Details/eadb6a33-b1b8-4c4d-b713-64fae728f74f/Details.aspx
seems to be still working. You can also do a Google search for “location stamper” and you’ll find several articles talking about the utility.