hzaifert wrote:
Any suggestions?
any gps you attach to your camera you will need to show patience with, they sometimes take time to gather the data that is needed. the best (and cheapest) way to do it is to take notes including location when you are taking photos and then add the info to the metadata when you post process the images.
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hzaifert wrote:
Any suggestions?
1. Use the "Search" function at the top of the page.
2. Go to the NikonUSA web site and look for GPS units.
3. Do a internet search (Google, Bing, etc.) for Nikon compatible GPS units.
4. Look on web sites like B&H for GPS units.
I use a Nikon Gp-1A on my D7100. Works very well. I believe the unit will work on D7000 also.
Take an iPhone photo at each shooting location.
When you launch the Camera app on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad for the first time it'll ask you if it can use your location. That uses Wi-Fi router mapping, and, if available, cell-tower triangulation and GPS to determine where you are and record that information along with the photo. In other words geotagging. It's great if you want to keep track of where you took your pictures, like on a photo walk or a vacation, but if you want to protect your privacy and keep your location undisclosed, it's not so good. Luckily, even if you allowed location the first time, you can change your mind at any time.
Any GPS unit that you can get the *.GPX file from (USB connections to the GPS) and download into a computer. Make sure the time is set on the camera correctly! You can correct that later but more difficult. You can find and download a program from the internet to get the time of the photo, then put in the GPS location. Try GeoSetter or GPixSync free from the internet.
Note: Any GPS unit that has been off for a long period of time and turned on in a new location will take some time to start getting good positions! When turned on, it will need to download the current almanac (rough position of all the satellites), then download the current Ephemeris data (precise satellites orbital data), then take the last location (you can't clear the last location until it has a new last location!) to get the current time. With the updated time (not that good because it used the old location), it will get a position (better then the old last location). The cycle continues getting better time, then getting better location, and with a good GPS Unit and clear view of the heavens, you should be getting good positions down to about 3 or 4 meters. From turn on to good positions will take about 5 minutes - sometimes longer if the last use of the GPS unit was long ago and far away!
GPS Note: Pure GPS location has absolutely no directional information. If you stand in one position, then move to another, the GPS unit can calculate that you moved in a certain direction, but you could have walked backwards or sideways! Many more expensive GPS units have electronic compasses (magnetic north) in them, and data for magnetic deviation for the world in them, so will give you a direction when standing still. Local magnetic material (your car) can mess that up. Understand what you are working with.
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