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GPS Tracker recommendation

• posted by: Miro A. on 2010-07-27
• tagged: gps, gps-tracking, photo
• score: 2

Looking for some recommendations on a GPS tracker.

I don't need it to navigate, I just need it to log coordinates every x seconds while hiking

• USB connection to computer or card transfer
• reasonable battery life (12+ hours)
• rechargeable via USB from computer or has exchangeable batteries (AA/AAA)
• No Windows specific software - I am using Mac
• just want data (x, y, time) as CSV or standard format like GPX
• automagical geotagging of Nikon RAW files and JPEGs on inserted card (SD and CF) would be awesome
• works in Europe and Americas

Thanks.

Answer 782

• posted by: Peter Mortensen on 2010-07-28
• score: 3

I use an i-gotU GT-120, mostly for contributing to OpenStreetMap. I think it meets all of the requirements - see notes below about non-Windows software.

The battery life is several days even when sampling at the highest rate, 1 sample/second. It can connect via Bluetooth to cameras and geotag the images. I haven't tested this feature.

The accompanying software is for Windows, but in this review it is stated:

"As I use Linux I was initially worried about lack of support but happily someone has created a command line utility which works under Mac OS X / Linux which allows you to pull the data off it in a GPX format which can then be used by Google maps, etc."

Other notes:

• it is not suited for differential GPS (not to be confused with DGPS) if the stationary unit is an i-gotU GT-120; unfortunately it locks to a fixed position when at rest (after a few seconds).

• The firmware can not be upgraded.

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