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Sony GPS-CS1

Bought this gadget through Orms in late March to auto-geotag my photos. It accurately logs your position every 15 seconds to its 32MB onboard flash memory (which works out to about 360 hours of NMEA-formatted GPS data) and takes just a single AA battery.

 

Once you've completed your shoot, the bundled software will merge the GPS data with your photo's existing EXIF data - Flickr takes care of the rest. It's guaranteed to work with recent Sony Cyber-shot cameras, but from what I've read is compatible with other cameras too.

 

Also useful for viewing your trip on Google Earth (requires you to first convert the data to either GPX or Google's KML format). Now if I can just find some software to parse the log files in realtime, I might just be able to use Google Earth on a laptop as a satellite navigation tool for the car! :)

 

Reviews: here and here - get it while it's hot (can't wait 'til this stuff's built into all cameras!)

 

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Uploaded on July 20, 2007
Taken on March 23, 2007