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bwana said:
got it - AMOD AGL 3080. $69 from Amazon :)
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I got mine this week. Unfortunately, when I ordered it, the *only* shipping option available (direct from Semsons) for people outside the U.S. was DHL 3 business days, which added $40 to the price. Oh well, what can you do.

It works pretty well. I had a bit of fun figuring out how the hell to get the logs in the right format. GPSPhotoLinker doesn't like the AMOD's native format, and GPSBabel+ doesn't detect the log format correctly. It should be "NMEA 0183 Sentences" and you have to convert it to "GPX XML" From there on it's pretty straight-forward. The latest photo "River garden" on my flickr page is geotagged :)
 
It's a GPS logger. All it does it logs your coordinates to a file at a set interval (the AMOD can do 1s, 5s and 10s). Then you use software to match the time stamps in the log to the times your photoss were taken, and it fills in the latitude/longitude EXIF tags. Flickr has built-in map support, you just need to enable it in your settings.
 
koffiejunkie said:
It's a GPS logger. All it does it logs your coordinates to a file at a set interval (the AMOD can do 1s, 5s and 10s). Then you use software to match the time stamps in the log to the times your photoss were taken, and it fills in the latitude/longitude EXIF tags. Flickr has built-in map support, you just need to enable it in your settings.
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so it uses gps, right?
 
xrapidx said:
How long does the battery last?
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No idea, I'll let you know when the first set runs out :) I believe if you let it run 24/7, the batteries won't last as long as the disc space, which is roughly 72 hours. But so far I've only had it on for trips of about an hour each, and most of today - didn't work while flying :(
 
koffiejunkie said:
I got mine this week. Unfortunately, when I ordered it, the *only* shipping option available (direct from Semsons) for people outside the U.S. was DHL 3 business days, which added $40 to the price. Oh well, what can you do.

It works pretty well. I had a bit of fun figuring out how the hell to get the logs in the right format. GPSPhotoLinker doesn't like the AMOD's native format, and GPSBabel+ doesn't detect the log format correctly. It should be "NMEA 0183 Sentences" and you have to convert it to "GPX XML" From there on it's pretty straight-forward. The latest photo "River garden" on my flickr page is geotagged :)
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Sounds complicated - maybe thats not the model for me?
 
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bwana said:
Sounds complicated - maybe thats not the model for me?
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Naah, not really. It was just tricky to figure out because the included software is for Windows. But at least the user manual had all the information I needed as far as the AMOD went. Where it got confusing was using the 3rd party software. GPSPhotoLinker expects a .gpx file. The interface doesn't give you any clue to this but I found it in the on-line documentation. GPSBabel+ just mis-detects the file format, adding to the confusion.

But of course, you know all of that now, so no problem, right?

Apparently HoudahGeo (or something like that) is a better solution - I'll try it when I'm home. The AMOD itself is dead simple to use, and the supplied documentation, unusually, is pretty good. Concise but complete.
 
OK, the verdict on the battery life is back. In continuous operation, NeverReady and Energizer give me about 15 hours before the battery light comes on. I don't know how long I have after that because I never tried. Today I had Duracells for the first time, had them going from 07:00 and it's after midnight now - still no battery light.

At some point in the near future I'll invest in AAA rechargeables and give that a try.
 
I'm ordering the Ecom North DLX48 3-in-1 GPS for Navigation Bluetooth Receiver (link as above) so I can also have GPS on my phone and laptop as well as geotag my photos.

I've been playing with the My Location feature on my phone's google maps and unless I'm at home it seems to be pretty accurate - for some reason as soon as I get to my burb I'm immediately transported to Dubai of all places!
 
Mine arrived today and I haven't a clue how to get it to work with aperture :o

Should be interesting. :)
 
It won't. You need to use a program to sync the images with the gps log files. I use GPSPhotoLinker - simply because it's the first one I tried, it's free, and it works well enough for me. There are others out there.

The one catch was that it doesn't support the file format from my logger, so I use GPSBabel+ to convert the logs to .gpx files.

The other catch - your camera and logger's time has to be in sync :)
 
The problem I'm having right now is pulling the data log off the device - so far I'm only able to do it via ||s.
 
koffiejunkie said:
Aah, that's why I went on about the AMOD - operating system independant...
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I decided against the AMOD in the end because I wanted a bluetooth device that I could also use it with my blackberry (which it does flawlessly).
 
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