Geo-Tagging with my Sony A700 - How??

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Does anybody know or use something that will allow Geo-Tagging while out shooting? It must work with my Sony A700.

The trouble that I have is that I am able to manually tag photos for most of them but there is always one or two that I can never remember where I took them.

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Not sure about a GPS system for your camera, I think you can get them for nikons but that isn't much help to you.

What mobile phone do you have? if its a smart phone you can probably use it to take a quick snap shot with GPS info attached, and then just copy it to the main photo :)
 
One of best ways is to get a cheap gps data-logger. They record a "tracklog" of where-ever you've been for your shoot. Then at the end of the day, you download your photo's to the computers HDD, download the tracklog from the logger to the same directory, and use a program like Geosetter to merge the location details into the individual files.
 
Harvey_nikon said:
Not sure about a GPS system for your camera, I think you can get them for nikons but that isn't much help to you.

What mobile phone do you have? if its a smart phone you can probably use it to take a quick snap shot with GPS info attached, and then just copy it to the main photo :)
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I have the HTC Desire which is a smartphone, I suppose I could do that way but it may take a while as I would have to take two photos of the same location.

TheBigYin said:
One of best ways is to get a cheap gps data-logger. They record a "tracklog" of where-ever you've been for your shoot. Then at the end of the day, you download your photo's to the computers HDD, download the tracklog from the logger to the same directory, and use a program like Geosetter to merge the location details into the individual files.
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That sounds like a good idea, is it easy to do? Does anybody else do it this way?
 
TurnipFarmer said:
That sounds like a good idea, is it easy to do? Does anybody else do it this way?
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It's exactly what I do, apart from the fact that I use a GPS device from Garmin that is actually designed as a sort of "Posh Cycle Computer" - mainly because I already owned it for on the bike. To be honest, in a way, the one I linked to is easier still to use - because it doesn't do anything else other than record a log. You switch it on, and stick it in your camera bags outside pocket, and that's it 'till you get back home. Then plug it into the computer, download one file into the same directory as you've emptied your cameras memory card into and run the merge software. Provided your cameras clock is set correctly (the GPS takes it's time from the satellite, so it's definitely right) it'll match shutter press time to tracklog time, and find a location, which it drops straight into the EXIF details. It's literally a 5 minute step at the beginning of your workflow. If it wasn't easy, i'd not bother doing it myself :lol:
 
Since you have a desire, look up GPSLogger on the marketplace - it's a free app. Go into options for it and make sure you tick the "Save tracks as GPX" option. Then you can use your phone as a GPS logger. Download the tracks to your somputer and use Geosetter to tag the images. One thing I did notice with the GPSLogger files and geosetter is that I sometimes needed to play with the +1 hour setting to compensate for daylight saving time (it seems to be aa miscommunication between the two, but is easily noticed and corrected)
 
I tend to use SportsTracker with a Nokia E71 and then sync later via timesyncing the data stamps.

I keep meaning to write my own app to do this.. but as long as you can get NMEA strings out in some format there are loads of tools to do this, assuming you have a mobile phone with GPS.
 
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