Geoff Holden

Here is my latest pre-Christmas toy–a Sony GPS-CS1. It’s essentially a GPS data logger, it’s only display is three LEDs. When it’s on (and has a signal) it takes a GPS reading every 15 seconds and records it to a file. The purpose of the device is to geotag photos (Sony says the device is to be used with CyberShot cameras, but it’ll work with any digital camera). The device even works well on Linux, it mounts as a 31MB usb-storage device and the log files are in NMEA format.

Because my new photos are now geotagged (plus I retroactively tagged the rest of the Photo of the Week album) I made some updates to my gallery software. Every album now has two new links in the info box: ‘Map Album’ and ‘Google Earth’, for a Google Maps and Earth display of the photos in the album (and every subalbum). Also, when browsing an album with the lightboxed photos up, if the image has been geotagged, there will be a little globe icon next to the title, this is a link to a Google Map with just that image.