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The English manual is written in only slightly mangled English, and a bit obtuse - I'm still not certain what it means to 're-start a new track,' but so far, it hasn't mattered. The WBT-201's documentation is a small bilingual booklet (English and Chinese). The second button allows the user to manually 'mark' a location in the recorded track as well as re-starting a new track.

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The one button allows the user to turn the unit on and off, and to turn off the Bluetooth transceiver to save power when used as a standalone logger. In the photo above, you can see all of its features: three LEDs, two buttons, and a mini-USB jack at one end. The WBT-201 'G-Rays 2' (a typically bizarre import product name) is a simple device. Most importantly, it was one of only a few such devices for which I could find strong evidence of Macintosh support, when used with HoudahGeo and HoudahGPS software. The WBT-201 will also run from an external USB power source. The manufacturer claims that it will run for 15 hours on its rechargeable battery in standalone logging mode, or 12 hours with its Bluetooth transceiver turned on. This small (2.3' x 1.5' x 0.7') box acts as a USB- and Bluetooth-connected receiver in concert with personal computers and PDAs, but also functions as a standalone GPS track-logging device. I found a Mac-compatible GPS logger about the size of a small box of matches.Īfter much research, I bought the Taiwanese-made Wintec WBT-201 (under $100 from many online stores) to use as my GPS logger. While the many GPS devices available as hiking aids will work for this task, there is a new class of 'GPS loggers' which forgo having a display for the sake of compactness.

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By using a piece of software after the fact to correlate the time stamps on each photo to the time stamps embedded in the GPS device's track log, software interpolates where in the 'breadcrumb trail' each photograph was taken. No connection is made between the devices - the process depends entirely upon the digital camera's built-in clock used to 'time stamp' each image file. More recently, a very clever solution has provided a new way of incorporating the 'track files' of a GPS 'logger' (a GPS receiver capable of independently storing periodic 'waypoints') with photographs taken on any digital camera. Even though a handful of digital cameras with integrated GPS receivers are manufactured, this is obviously a poor solution for most hobbyists or professionals who would not be satisfied with whatever quality and features these few GPS-equipped cameras have. Increasingly, solutions have been developed to automatically collect geographical data using inexpensive GPS receivers. (see image below)įor some time, photography enthusiasts have been geocoding their photos manually by using address search features in online photo sites such as Flickr and Picasa, which then attach the location of each photograph to the image file itself. (The EXIF standard for image files metadata provides for lat/long info in addition to typical photographic parameters such as shutter speed, focal length and ASA rating.) Once an image file has this geographic data permanently associated with it, many solutions exist to represent that photograph's location on a map or aerial photograph. This might be a human-readable street address, but the compelling practice is to store latitude and longitude (lat/long) within the file. Geotagging photographs (also called 'geocoding') is the process of embedding geographical information within digital image files.

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a Macintosh computer (running Mac OS 10.4.8 or higher for HoudahGeo software).software for 'geocoding' digital photos with GPS data.a GPS receiver capable of recording a 'log file' of its position as it moves.

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Update 6/1/08: The ATP Photo Finder ($100 MSRP, $80 street) allows you to geotag photo files directly while they are on the memory card, so no computer is required to add GPS information to the image files. Wouldn't it be neat if after you got back from that vacation to a far-off country you had a way to see a 'breadcrumb' trail on a map of everywhere you went, whether on foot, in a boat, or in a wheeled vehicle? And wouldn't it be even cooler if you could see where you were when you took every photograph? Here's how I did it on a Macintosh with about $140 in hardware and software.

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