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Does Pentax have a camera with gps to locate pictures taken. Or is there a system that will tag location to the pictures. I have traveled around the world and need to start organizing my photos.
 
bigshorty66 said:
Does Pentax have a camera with gps to locate pictures taken. Or is there a system that will tag location to the pictures. I have traveled around the world and need to start organizing my photos.
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I don't know what it is called, but you can have both a normal GPS that logs your route and sync the time in your camera to the GPS, and then when you get back to your computer, software will go through and tag all your photos based on where you were at that time to the correct photo. Hopefully someone else will chime in with what it is called. Obviously there isn't much to be done for the photos you have already taken.

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I just carry a hand held GPS that does track logging, then run a correlate program as part of my PP workflow, to write the closest GPS co-ords as exif data. The software I use is http://freefoote.dview.net/linux_gpscorr.html , but many others are available.

The hard part is making sure the camera clock is correct, and remembering to turn the GPS on! :)
 
I am using a separate GPS logger for recording the GPS tracks and then add the GPS information to the RAW image files using a PC. I am using Geosetter for this, it was teh only software that I found which can handle RAW files. Occasionally I take a picture of a very accurate time source and get the time difference between the camera time and and the actual time. The time in the GPS data is very accurate anyway.

By the way, GeoSetter also allows you to tag files manually if necessary.This allows to fix the GPS information, if the recorded data is not accurate enough (for example, if you are inside a bulding). Additionally you can now even add information about the camera direction.

Search for the keyword "geotagging", there are a few threats around.

Regards

Erhard
 
I am on a PC and I use GeoSetter, which someone else also mentioned. The user interface is a bit non-intuitive at times, but it is very functional when you get used to it.

To sync the camera and GPS clock I take a picture of the display on the GPS. I can apply any offset in GeoSetter before correlating the GPS track and the pictures.

Remembering to turn on the GPS is my biggest problem!

Doug
AlexMonro said:
I just carry a hand held GPS that does track logging, then run a correlate program as part of my PP workflow, to write the closest GPS co-ords as exif data. The software I use is http://freefoote.dview.net/linux_gpscorr.html , but many others are available.

The hard part is making sure the camera clock is correct, and remembering to turn the GPS on! :)
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Is there an easy way to take a shot with say an iPhone and extract the location info from that and apply to other pics taken at same timestamp? I always have my iPhone with me, so would be a handy solution for me.
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I globetrot around the world also. When I take pictures, I usually include a reference in the photo which will remind me of where I was. For example. I was in Belgium a few years ago and I specifically included chocolates in all the photos I took. Sometimes you can include things like streetsigns or exotic wildlife in your photos to help identify locations you have been at.
Hope that helps. And ofcourse...

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I use an app from http://www.everytrail.com on my mobile - available for a range of mobiles and gps's - to create the gpx file and Geosetter and the gpx file to link the geodata to my photographs. As another post mentions, Geosetter is not as intuitive as it could be but it has gotten a great deal better lately. The added advantage is that I can select some of the photographs from a trip and display then as an Everytrail trip - for example:

http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=927793&code=d1bb650111e50ca0f46dd4dd40931d89

Great to have a mapped and photographic record of my trips.

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I thank you for your input, I am new to digital and want to get where I was with film. I have been a Pentax owner for 45 years. ME then the LX, what a great weather sealed camera, now the K10 which I bought for $300 last year, and hope to get the K5 when I feel I am advanced enough to appreciate it. Everyone so far on this site is very helpful and willing to share there experiences. It is so nice to have a site like this, to share and to become friends with so many around the world.
 
If you're a Mac user, iPhoto and Aperture have a function called "Places" where you can use pins or text to locate and play photos and videos on maps. It sort of operates like Google Maps. It becomes pretty powerful when you want to organize or retrieve photos from particular areas or trips.

http://www.apple.com/aperture/whats-new.html
 
Picasa will let you tag your photos using Google maps.
I really like Picasa. It's a very quick and easy way to organize your photos.
It also does non-destructive edits to your photos.

JR
 
I do have a Mac but do I need to have my photos tagged with GPS locations prior to loading them into to the Mac.
 
Not sure if that was a question. Anyway, for existing images you'll have to manually locate the places using Aperture, iPhoto or whatever program you want to use. It's an easy process. There also may be a way to automate group changes to your EXIF in Aperture, say if you had a bunch of images with the same location (but I'm not sure about this).

If you buy one of these below (for example, I don't know if this is any good), you'll use it to record GPS fixes for each image and download the fix data to your CF card to append the GPS location to your EXIF. Then when you use iPhoto or Aperture, the "Places" may be automatically updated within the software.

http://www.amazon.com/Sony-GPS-CS3KA-Digital-Imaging-Accessory/dp/B001PO5VV8
 
IgorK said:
I'm using Sony GPS-CS3KA GPS Image Tracker:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/604577-REG/Sony_GPS_CS3KA_GPS_CS3KA_GPS_Image_Tracker.html

Pretty accurate and easy to use.
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But it won't do any raws but Sony's own except when imported into a PC!!!

Unfortunately it takes some research to discover this defect: Sony mis-describe their unit. And I have just bought it on the basis of your recommendation and Sony's mis-description. I fondly imagined that I could insert a card full of .pefs into this unit and get them geotagged. O sweet illusion!

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