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Think about the last place you traveled to. Do you want to know exactly where all your pictures were taken? Take the GiSTEQ PhotoTrackr with you on your next trip! Utilizing the included mapping software and latest Geo-Mapping technology, the GiSTEQ PhotoTrackr allows you to record and review your trip knowing exactly where you have traveled. Furthermore, if you took pictures on your trip, it will even show you the exact location and time of your pictures. The most exciting feature of all is that you can upload your photos to Flickr online. It's a cool way to share your trip experience with friends and families. Make your next trip special; don't let your trip gone by without precise location info. There is no subscription and no monthly fee. Get yours today!!
GiSTEQ CD110BT Bluetooth GPS Digital PhotoTracker - for Digital Cameras with NEMERIX Low Power Chipset "MAC COMPATIBLE" Features
- Store up to 250K data records (approx. 3~4 weeks of data)
- Keep track of your digital photos with satellite precision
- Integrated with Flickr / locr / Picasa Web Album / SmugMug for easy online photo sharing
- Share your photos with family and friends with location mapping in PhotoTrackr software. (With integrated Google Maps.)
Price: $55.80
User Reviews about GiSTEQ CD110BT Bluetooth GPS Digital PhotoTracker - for Digital Cameras with NEMERIX Low Power Chipset "MAC COMPATIBLE"
Got this device just a few days before leaving on a vacation so I didn;t have much time to learn how to use it. I was interested in geotagging my vacation photos and using a Mac to match the geotracking info with the pictures from my digital camera. This was not an "out of the box" solution as I had to download the software for the Mac from the GISTEQ web site, and the first link took me to an old version of the software that did not work with Mac OS 10.5. After poking around their FAQ's and the web site I found a newer version of the software and everything worked great, but not as described in the support literature. The support lit was for the earlier version of the software. In the end I got the geotagging done, and the ability of the GISTEQ software to append the geotag into the JPEG allowed that info to go directly into iPhoto. I am very happy with the product and would give it five stars but for the Mac software issues. -- GISTEQ Photo Tracker does the job
I bought this product a month ago and have used it frequently and had four communications with the company which makes and sells it. The device is an amazing addition to the life of a field biologist: it takes about 90% of the work out of keeping accurate field notes and makes the final notes more automated and more complete. You just carry this GPS logger, turned on, all of the time, manually keeping time-noted observations as you go. When you get back to your office, you DL the tracks by USB with the included the software. THAT almost works perfectly.
As far as automatically geo-coding the image files you've taken with all your time-synchronized digital still cameras at the exact Lat-Long locations of the photos were taken -- that works Ok, except with each file-write it corrupts the Exif tags which cameras place inside each image. Specifically, my Nikon 990 images emerge fine, but my Nikon D70 images are all corrupted. It is not the Lat or Long tags which are mis-written, it is some of the camera information which is rendered useless.
Having said that, I also note that opening each JPEG with Adobe CS2 Photoshop (Tm)and "Save AS" the file, un-corrupts each image file. When I told GiSTEQ service of this problem, they asked for an example file, before and after, which I immediately sent them. After two weeks of waiting, I called California and talked with "Sean", and he promised to get back to me. After another 10 days he had neither returned my messages nor phoned.
What is so useful to me is the tiny cell-phone-sized device that picks up satellite locks from almost anywhere, and blue-tooths the present location (but longer tracks need USB cable) to my palm-top computer (Sony VAIO)and also USB downloads long tracks to the computer after several days of fieldwork. For consulting cases which might wind up in expert-witness court cases, it will be invaluable. I recommend buying one, (and ignoring my above complaints about file corruptions). -- Photo Trackr great for tracks, imperfect for image file geo-tagging.