![]() This process will work with any GPS logger and camera but all the software I use is Windows-based and I’m not sure if there is something similar that will run on an iPod.Īnother GPS that has lasted through 15 years of getting carted around the desert is the BT-747 logger. I wrote a paper about the process that you can read here. Sadly, it died when the GPS week numbers rolled over and the company never had an update for the device. I used it with my DSLR to geotag photos once I got back to the office. It would run for about 36 hours on a single AA battery. It had a display that could show a clock or the current coordinates. My favorite was the Holux M-241 which looked like a roll of Kodak film. I have used a series of GPS loggers over the years. They will weigh more than an iPod, but still light weight for taking backpacking. Most of these cameras have a very nice macro mode too. If you are using wifi to connect your iPod to upload pictures to iNaturalist, most of these newer cameras will let you connect to a phone or whatever using bluetooth or wifi, so you can transfer pictures to your device, then upload them to the internet. I find the pictures from these little cameras to generally be better than my iPhone 8 pictures. The new ones are under $500 to buy, and you have the added benefit of being able to buy extra batteries for them. There are several other good brands of waterproof pocket cameras with gps available too. Older models of these cameras can sometimes be found used from reputable dealers, or you can try buying refurbished ones that come with a short warranty. I’ve used a Nikon waterproof camera and an Olympus Tough waterproof camera, both with gps that you can turn on. I know it’s not exactly what you are asking, but I have used two different types of small pocket cameras that had gps in them. Sorry I don’t have a better answer, but I think the key to making things easier for you is to find a piece of equipment or equipment+software combo that will write coordinates into your photos somehow. I eventually found this too tedious (AKA I’m just too lazy) so I bought a GP-E2 for my Canon camera, which attaches to my non-GPS enabled DSLR and automatically writes in the coordinates to each photo. I’m not sure if there would be some workaround or otherwise. I forget the next step (I think it involved photographing the QR code then opening the files in a program on the computer) but basically what it would do is it would sync the time of your route with the times of the photos taken, and write the GPS coordinates of where you were when that photo was taken into the image file. ![]() Basically, you would start the app when you start taking photos, and it would record your track until you stopped it. There may be some equivalent but back in the day I used to use an app called gps4cam. In order to automatically have coordinates when you upload an observation you would need the coordinates to be written into the image files. Murphy's law dictates that at the end of the day I'm going to have a phone with a nearly flat battery, need to use it for some other data or voice purposes, and have nowhere to charge the thing.That’s a toughie, I think that even if you were to find a GPS unit you would still be forced to manually enter in GPS coordinates of observations. Using a cellphone means running the GPS while you're taking photos. The extra cord and software are complete non-issues, in my opinion. And it probably does require their software to download the GPS data, so you'll probably want to stay clear of this one.įrom my perspective, though, it (1) eliminates needing to purchase dedicated units for my Nikons (2) provides a single hardware solution for both my Olympus and Panasonic m4/3 cameras, neither of which has a dedicated GPS unit (3) is lightweight and can be mounted off/out of the way of the cameras (4) is inexpensive yet accurate and (5) doesn't draw camera battery power and has a very long runtime on its internal battery. The cable weighs maybe half an ounce, not sure what that is in grams.nothing either way in real terms.
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