Posts tagged #GPS

Geotagging Nikon P7000 RAW files (NRW)

PhotoLinkerI tend to geotag most of my photos. This way I have location information with the photo for future reference. It's also a neat feature that you might exploit when creating photo albums with e.g. iPhoto. The GPS coordinates in the images creates the option to create maps in iPhoto albums.

I use geotagging in two different ways. I use the jf Geocoding plugin in Lightroom and the PhotoLinker application. Both have their (dis)advantages. Something I won't go into in this post.

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Posted on December 29, 2010 by Willem and filed under Photography, Software, Tips'n Tricks and tagged GPS Lightroom Mac Nikon geotag nef nrw p7000 photolinker OSX.

Update on OSX GPS Logging Software

It's been a while since I used the MTK software for getting GPS logs from my QStarz GPS BT Q1000 travel recorder. This weekend I was surprised to see that the developpers had updated the application interface (among other things). The new version is a JAVA applet, which can be installed in your Applications folder, or it can be run online ('no' installation required).

No installation is not entirely correct, because you still need the USB drivers AND you need to create a directory and set certain filesystem rights.

In short:

sudo mkdir /var/lock
sudo chmod 777 /var/lock

It's possible that there's a prompt for an admin password.

  • Run the Application (or install it).
    You need to trust the signed JAVA application. If you don't, the application will not run.
  • Launch the application and switch the GPS logger on (log-mode)
  • Press connect, and you're good to go.

I'm definitely looking forward to the maps integration (development version only at this moment).

 

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Willem and filed under Apple, Hardware, Software and tagged BT747 GPS JAVA MTK.