Subject: [Tweeters] Eye-fi for birding
Date: Sep 7 16:42:15 2009
From: Marc Hoffman - tweeters at dartfrogmedia.com


Hi Richard,

If you Google "gps photo-tagging" you'll get lots of information
about this. I have used a handheld GPS device in conjunction with the
GPS software that came with it plus Breeze DownloaderPro to tag my
photos, but it was a pretty convoluted process that I quickly tired
of. Some devices and software are undoubtedly simpler. In essence,
you need to synchronize the date/time on your camera with that on
your GPS device, record positions on the GPS, export them as a track
log of some sort, and use software that compares the track log with
the dates of your photos and tags the photos with location information.

Marc Hoffman
Kirkland, WA
http://www.dartfrogmedia.com
mailto: tweeters at dartfrogmedia dot com


At 12:07 PM 9/7/2009, you wrote:
>I've been experimenting with Eye-fi -- a new technology for
>allegedly automatically geotagging all your photos. My records are
>less than perfect, and I was hoping Ey-fi would help me record exact
>sites where I find birds.
>
>Unfortunately it appears to be a purely urban application. It
>appears to work only in city downtowns . I can't get it to work in
>city parks or even small towns. There will be a GPS version
>someday, but this one relies on Wi-fi only. I carry along my
>Blackjack phone with GPS, but the 2 devices don't talk, yet.
>
>The full capability will come soon, I suspect.
>
>Anyone else have better luck or know a better solution?
>
>Richard Carlson