New GPS tracker for photographers

[Gerhard Kulzer-3]

I just found a new "digiKam plugin" :-)

It's a GPS tracker for about €90 that loads the track data directly into the
SD-cards: http://photofinder.atpinc.com/

Gerhard


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[Alexander Wright]

On Tuesday 22 January 2008 09:27:00 Gerhard Kulzer wrote:
> I just found a new "digiKam plugin" :-)
>
> It's a GPS tracker for about €90 that loads the track data directly into
> the SD-cards: http://photofinder.atpinc.com/

For those of you with a GPS, please consider helping the Open Street Map
(http://www.openstreetmap.org)  project. All donations of GPS tracks welcome,
even if you don't want to get involved creating the map.

Cheers,

Alex Wright.
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[Arnd Baecker]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Gerhard Kulzer wrote:

> I just found a new "digiKam plugin" :-)
>
> It's a GPS tracker for about €90 that loads the track data directly into the
> SD-cards: http://photofinder.atpinc.com/

Hopefully it does not corrupt the data at that stage
(which normally would be before any back-up ... ;-).

Apart from that possibility it seems like a nice device, in particular
because the UTC time will be in the display
(This step is important, because otherwise there is no
way to correct time shifts).
Presumably it does not support different time-zones.
At least it has a SiRF Star III chipset but the running time of
about 8hours
(according to http://www.dpreview.com/news/0801/08011601photofinder.asp)
is a bit on the low side for my taste ...

Arnd
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[Pedro Venda-3]

Arnd Baecker wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Gerhard Kulzer wrote:
>
>> I just found a new "digiKam plugin" :-)
>>
>> It's a GPS tracker for about €90 that loads the track data directly into the
>> SD-cards: http://photofinder.atpinc.com/

Seems cool but maybe a bit intrusive.
I am using the similarly priced GlobalSat DG-100.

what's good about it:
- about 30h or continuous running time;
- good signal sensitivity;
- very simple interface;
- hardware independent;
- runs on two standard AA (or AAA) batteries;
- the batteries can be recharged by the unit's USB port;

what's not so good about it:
- the synchronisation process is manual and more tedious (not that there
was an alternative when I bought it);
- the software that comes with it is utterly useless (but fortunately
we're all savvy guys and gpsbabel sorts things out perfectly well);
- the camera's clock needs to be accurately set and maintained;

I wrote about it in my blog:
http://pjvenda.blogspot.com/2007/09/my-new-toy-globalsat-dg-100-gps-data.html

Cheers,
Pedro Venda.

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[Arnd Baecker]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Pedro Lourenco Venda wrote:

> Arnd Baecker wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Gerhard Kulzer wrote:
> >
> >> I just found a new "digiKam plugin" :-)
> >>
> >> It's a GPS tracker for about €90 that loads the track data directly into the
> >> SD-cards: http://photofinder.atpinc.com/
>
> Seems cool but maybe a bit intrusive.
> I am using the similarly priced GlobalSat DG-100.
>
> what's good about it:
> - about 30h or continuous running time;
> - good signal sensitivity;
> - very simple interface;
> - hardware independent;
> - runs on two standard AA (or AAA) batteries;
> - the batteries can be recharged by the unit's USB port;
>
> what's not so good about it:
> - the synchronisation process is manual and more tedious (not that there
> was an alternative when I bought it);
> - the software that comes with it is utterly useless (but fortunately
> we're all savvy guys and gpsbabel sorts things out perfectly well);
> - the camera's clock needs to be accurately set and maintained;

This point is always true (even more so if you shoot with
many people and want to exchange images later).
Note that you can use gphoto2 to set the time of the camera.
Together with an up-to-date time for your computer (see ntpdate)
this works very well.

> I wrote about it in my blog:
> http://pjvenda.blogspot.com/2007/09/my-new-toy-globalsat-dg-100-gps-data.html

BTW (to all): feel free to update the digikam wiki
http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Digikam+Geolocalization
which already discusses the DG-100 and some other devices + gives
some useful links.

However, the new (great!) information that it works with gps-babel
has not been added.

Thanks, Arnd
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[Pedro Venda-3]

Arnd Baecker wrote:
>
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Pedro Lourenco Venda wrote:
> Note that you can use gphoto2 to set the time of the camera.
> Together with an up-to-date time for your computer (see ntpdate)
> this works very well.

Cool, I already use ntp regularly, but didn't know that gphoto2 could do
that.

>> I wrote about it in my blog:
>> http://pjvenda.blogspot.com/2007/09/my-new-toy-globalsat-dg-100-gps-data.html
>
> BTW (to all): feel free to update the digikam wiki
> http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Digikam+Geolocalization
> which already discusses the DG-100 and some other devices + gives
> some useful links.

I'll see what I can do later tonight.

> However, the new (great!) information that it works with gps-babel
> has not been added.

Well... only the CVS HEAD does. They haven't released any version with
code for handling the DG100 in it.

Now if only I could do a decent build of digiKam for os X... The sad (or
best) thing is that nothing (not even expensive complex commercial
stuff) comes close to digiKam in terms of managing a photo library.

Cheers,
Pedro Venda.

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[Arnd Baecker]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Pedro Lourenco Venda wrote:

> Arnd Baecker wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Pedro Lourenco Venda wrote:
> > Note that you can use gphoto2 to set the time of the camera.
> > Together with an up-to-date time for your computer (see ntpdate)
> > this works very well.
>
> Cool, I already use ntp regularly, but didn't know that gphoto2 could do
> that.

Essentially:
  gphoto2 --get-config time
and
  gphoto2 --set-config time=XXXXXXX
where the argument for time is the output of:
  date +%s
Important: you might have to add UTC_OFFSET*60*60 to
take into account the time zone offset.

There is another weird point: sometimes the gphoto2
command work immediately, and sometimes there is a delay
of 8-10s....
(Did not have time yet to ask on the gphoto2 mailing list ...)

> >> I wrote about it in my blog:
> >> http://pjvenda.blogspot.com/2007/09/my-new-toy-globalsat-dg-100-gps-data.html
> >
> > BTW (to all): feel free to update the digikam wiki
> > http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Digikam+Geolocalization
> > which already discusses the DG-100 and some other devices + gives
> > some useful links.
>
> I'll see what I can do later tonight.
>
> > However, the new (great!) information that it works with gps-babel
> > has not been added.
>
> Well... only the CVS HEAD does. They haven't released any version with
> code for handling the DG100 in it.

No problem, compiled fine in just a few minutes.

> Now if only I could do a decent build of digiKam for os X... The sad (or
> best) thing is that nothing (not even expensive complex commercial
> stuff) comes close to digiKam in terms of managing a photo library.

I think G. Boiko managed that. He is sometimes in the digikam IRC
(#digikam on irc.freenode.net) you could ask him ...

Best, Arnd
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[Arnd Baecker]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Arnd Baecker wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Pedro Lourenco Venda wrote:

[...]

> > Now if only I could do a decent build of digiKam for os X... The sad (or
> > best) thing is that nothing (not even expensive complex commercial
> > stuff) comes close to digiKam in terms of managing a photo library.
>
> I think G. Boiko managed that. He is sometimes in the digikam IRC
> (#digikam on irc.freenode.net) you could ask him ...

OK, I just checked: he managed to build the upcoming
digikam 0.10. This uses KDE4 and is, however, under heavy development
and thus not yet recommended for production use, see
  http://www.digikam.org/?q=about/releaseplan

Best, Arnd
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[Arnd Baecker]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Arnd Baecker wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Arnd Baecker wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Pedro Lourenco Venda wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > Now if only I could do a decent build of digiKam for os X... The sad (or
> > > best) thing is that nothing (not even expensive complex commercial
> > > stuff) comes close to digiKam in terms of managing a photo library.
> >
> > I think G. Boiko managed that. He is sometimes in the digikam IRC
> > (#digikam on irc.freenode.net) you could ask him ...
>
> OK, I just checked: he managed to build the upcoming
> digikam 0.10. This uses KDE4 and is, however, under heavy development
> and thus not yet recommended for production use, see
>   http://www.digikam.org/?q=about/releaseplan

Well, Gilles just pointed out that this should exist via fink;
and indeed, see
   http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/digikam

HTH, Arnd
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[Pedro Venda-3]

Arnd Baecker wrote:

>>>> ) comes close to digiKam in terms of managing a photo library.
>>>>        
>>> I think G. Boiko managed that. He is sometimes in the digikam IRC
>>> (#digikam on irc.freenode.net) you could ask him ...
>>>      
>> OK, I just checked: he managed to build the upcoming
>> digikam 0.10. This uses KDE4 and is, however, under heavy development
>> and thus not yet recommended for production use, see
>>   http://www.digikam.org/?q=about/releaseplan
>> Well, Gilles just pointed out that this should exist via fink;
>> and indeed, see
>>    http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/digikam
>>    

Thanks Arnd.

digiKam exists in fink and I've already installed it, but the availabel
kipi-plugins don't even include gpssync and digikam does not link
properly with libkexiv2 and friends, so EXIF/IPTC/Makernote handling is
not very good (i.e. does not work). I can't give any more details as I'm
upgrading os X to leopard and got rid of everything-fink to get more
disk space.

That's why I was trying to compile it manually against all its
dependencies and the dependencies of the dependencies...


Cheers,
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