I suspect that the main difference between a phone GPS and a dedicated one,
apart from not using up the battery of your precious communication device, is
accuracy. I'm told I shouldn't expect better than 30m accuracy from an iphone.
I suspect Google Earth coordinates can be off by that much too, if the
difference between the images of roads and the corresponding linework is
anything to go by.
Peter Shute
Sent from my iPad
On 1 Oct 2013, at 9:06 am, "Martin Butterfield"
<<>> wrote:
If you don't have a mobile phone, my camera (Panasonic TZ40) has a GPS function
which - if activated - includes geocoordinates with images. I suspect many
other mid-range cameras now have this functionality.
It seems that the need for a dedicated GPS for simply recording point locations
is well gone.
Martin
On 1 October 2013 08:30, Peter Shute
<<>> wrote:
If you mean you want to save and name a way point so that you can just read out
the way point name into the microphone, then I would have thought most would
allow that. Some probably just automatically number the way points, but you
could read out that number.
I just use my phone's GPS (have never tried a dedicated GPS), and I read out
the coordinates directly at each new location. I could mark a way point and
then later copy its coordinates into the metadata, but it seems just as quick
to type it out while I listen to the coordinates I read out. It gives me two
chances to get it wrong, but it also means the coordinates aren't as likely to
get separated from the recording.
I'm hoping I can find a way to get the phone to read out the current
coordinates so I can just hold it up to the mic. That should eliminate the
first kind of error, but it's inspired more by laziness.
Peter Shute
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Sent: Tuesday, 1 October 2013 7:52 AM
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Subject: GPS for vocalisation recording
All,
I know this has been raised a few times over the years, so apologies for that,
but the technology and brands keep changing and it is difficult to keep up.
I need a Handheld GPS to support my vocalisation recordings. The main
requirements other than the obligatory battery life, ruggedness, light,
international maps, deep forest satilite acquistion, etc, is the ability to
input multiple way points and link them to a specific recording.
Most of the units I see on line seem to have a detailed drill down menu but
what I am looking for is a compact unit whereby I can quickly enter a location,
note the 'location reference' in my recording and then weeks later when I am
back home, download that way point into my computer when I am doing my Meta
data?
Up until now I have been doing it after the fact off Google Earth and this is
getting very old.
Also, the ability to pre-load waypoints is probably standard, but also
required. I am a hand held GPS novice, if that is not already evident by the
questions, so any and all help is appreciated.
Cheers,
Roger
Roger McNeill
Samford Valley, SEQ
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