[Az-Geocaching] New cacher and another reason to use GPS

[Jason Poulter]

sounds like a great way to use a gps!!!

jason


Jim Scotti wrote:

>    Photography and GPS are a wonderful combination.  There's a not very
> active Yahoo!Group called Geographing which combines the two that might be
> worth checking out.  I think some careful notetaking on when your photos were
> taken that includes the GPS measured coordinates and a direction is a great
> idea and one that is even easier with a digital camera.  If you keep your
> digital camera's clock reasonably accurate, you can do a lot of back checking
> using your tracklog for most of your photos - and you don't have to think
> about it too much, just to leave your GPS on and tracking while your are
> exploring and photographing.  Along with a couple of waypoints for special
> photos and calibration, you should be able to reconstruct the location of
> almost all your images, at least while the GPS is on and tracking satellites.  
> I've done that with one hike, but haven't gone much farther with it - yet.
>    As for what GPS, well, almost any will do.  I like my Garmin Legend whose
> maps really help in a lot of circumstances (using MapSource Roads and Rec
> and/or Topo is my prefered).  It's recent firmware upgrade that expanded the
> number of waypoints and trackpoints really makes it wonderful to be able to
> use both for keeping track of where your photos were taken (not to mention
> for geocaching).  Its compass, however, depends on recent motion of the
> reciever, so a reciever with a built in compass might be preferable if she
> wants to include direction of photo a little more reliably.
>    The biggest problem I've had in combining GPS and camera is just good old
> organization and record keeping.  I'm still trying to find the best way of
> organizing my digital pictures (the old notebook with slides or
> transperancies worked pretty well, but with smaller numbers of images, it
> wasn't hard to keep track of the images I wanted - I need some sort of
> database scheme to keep track of my digital images....  Including more
> information like location, time, direction, and other notes in such a
> database should not be too hard to do.
> 
> Jim.
> 
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, gale and mike wrote:
> 
> 
>>A friend of mine sent me an e-mail recently. A coworker of his is a
>>photography buff. She is interested in getting her own GPS to use with
>>her photography. She does a lot of landscapes and nature photography and
>>wants to be able to find places again. Is anyone out there a photographer
>>and use their GPS like that? Any recommendations on what GPS she should
>>get?
> 
> 
> Jim Scotti
> Lunar & Planetary Laboratory
> University of Arizona
> Tucson, AZ 85721 USA                 http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/    
> 
> ____________________________________________________________
> Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com
> To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit:
> http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching
> 
> Arizona's Geocaching Resource
> http://www.azgeocaching.com