We just got our hands on one of these bit guys after looking around for a method to tag our DSLR pictures with GPS place data. The match-boxed sized system (currently on special offer at £29.99) takes a snapshot of your GPS information (longitude, latitude, altitude, speed, heading, date as well as time) at routine intervals set by you. If you’re a professional photographer or just want to record a cars and truck journey, a walk, hike or a bike trip etc with digital breadcrumbs then checked out on.
Connect the GPS to your computer via USB to set the recording interval. You can likewise take a handbook checked out (say when you take a photo) by pressing the button on the front. The i-GotU is clever sufficient to understand the speed it’s going as well as well as you can select an choice to boost the frequency of samples over a specific speed (useful when utilizing in a car). Grabbing your setting every 10 seconds will provide you a battery life of around 20 hours, whilst dropping that back to every 30 seconds will provide you a large 60 hours. Helpfully the supplied charger lead enables you to juice up from any type of USB socket as well as you’ll have full power once again in around 2 hours.
The supplied software application is Windows only however we discovered this free open source app for Mac OSX as well as Linux that enables you to download your trip data from the iGot-U. The .GXP data it creates are quickly be converted to .KML data for utilize in Google earth (check out the free HoudahGPS convertor as well on the Mac app Store) as well as when there your journey can be viewed including your speed. You might even slip one of these into a cars and truck (with view of the sky as well as drivers consent of course) to track where they’ve been, as well as what speeds they’ve been driving at! finest of all they are currently on special offer for just £29.99. one more excellent free Mac app (GPSPhotoLinker) will painlessly merge your GPS data into your pictures EXIF fields – which is the task we bought the i-GotU for. The supplied Windows software application likewise includes sports Analyser with physical fitness analysis if you are utilizing the system for training.
“With the supplied i-gotU software, you can now keep a record of your own journey by just pressing the log button when you take a photo. By ensuring your digital camera as well as tracker clocks are synchronised, you can quickly upload a travel blog of your journey to www.a-trip.com as well as associated photos to on the internet album sites such as Yahoo Flickr™ as well as Google Picasa™ to quickly share pictures with your good friends as well as household online. A travel blog not only assists to visualise your journey on 2D/3D Google Maps™, however likewise enables you to view the landscape from different angles utilizing Google Earth™ 360 degree panorama technology. The software application allows you to produce an HTML data with embedded YouTube video links for your good friends to see the path of your trip on software application such as Google Maps™ together with photos you have taken on the way! Alternatively, the GPS travel tracker might even be utilized to retrospectively track a path of your pet or vehicle, providing detailed info on its whereabouts, velocity, date as well as time over a provided period, without you having been there! The tracker can be set to log your GPS place at preset or individual defined intervals as well as utilizing digitised street mapping on Google Maps™ or Google Earth™, the i-gotU software application can accurately report travel activities such as where a vehicle or a pet went to, when it was there as well as exactly how long it stayed there. In addition to the supplied travel blog software, the product includes two bonus software application titles – Where I Am as well as sports Analyser.
iGot-U data Imported into Google earth showing Plotted ‘Digital Breadcrumb’ Waypoints
Where I Am – By linking the system to your laptop or netbook as a GPS receiver, you can find yourself quickly on Google, Yahoo! or Bing Maps as well as guide yourself onwards. A handy tool for the photographer, backpacker, laid-back traveller to inspect POIs around them on the go! The GPS travel tracker can likewise be utilized with compatible third celebration software application (not supplied) such as Microsoft streets as well as Maps or other navigation software.
Sports Analyser – enables you to track as well as analyse sports exercise on Google Maps as well as screen work-out results with calorie readings, useful charts as well as stats analysis. satisfy your physical fitness goals by tracking workout development with calendar review.
Small in size, huge on memory with excellent battery performance
Record as well as trace your journey with picture places utilizing GPS technology
View your journey on Google Maps™ as well as Google Earth™
Retrospectively view a path as well as places of your child, vehicle or pet with detailed info on travel, speed, date as well as time
Pocket-sized water resistant GPS travel tracker – excellent for blogging your journey!
Upload a travel blog of your journey as well as associated photos to software application such as Yahoo Flickr™ as well as Google Picasa™
Broadcast your travel experience via social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace etc.
Pre-set GPS logging intervals of 5, 10, 15, 30 or 60 seconds or manually set from 1 second to 60 minutes
Geotrack as well as analyse sports or exercise activities with sport charts as well as calorie usage reference
Supplied with USB charging cable, rubber material belt or strap installing situation as well as software application on CD-Rom
Compatible with Windows® 2000, Windows® XP, 32-bit versions of Windows® Vista as well as Windows 7
Uses a SiRF star III GPS chipset powered by a 230mAh Lithium-ion battery
Measures just 44.5(h) x 28.5(w) x 13(d) mm
Weighs only 20g “
Available now from Maplin.com
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