| Garmin Gps 60 Data Storage On Long Journies | ||
 | Written by Canopus 73 months ago | |
| I'm shortly going to be making a six week journey through Turkey and Georgia , but, there is a problem with amount of data I can store on the unit. From what I understand, if I set my Garmin GPS 60 to update at least frequent intervals it will start overwriting in around seven days and there will be times I want it to update more frequently. I thought I had found a solution by buying a memory key, installing a GPS data manager G7ToWin (which is portable) on it, then using Internet cafés on route to transfer data from GPS 60 to Flash Key. Unfortunately it seems that Garmin GPS 60 requires that you need its driver installed on a PC before you can download/upload data. So, although G7ToWin is portable and could be used in any Internet café the drivers are not. So, I'm looking for a solution for handling all this data while on the move for six weeks. A lap top would do it well, but, too bulky and heavy for back-packing. PDAs sound good, but, seem to be limited in memory size. Also from what I've gleamed the USB socket on PDAs is just for synchronising them with PC so I could not connect my Garmin to it via USB and would require a PDA with serial port connections. I've seen some people mention Pocket PCs, but, not sure what the difference between PPC and PDA is. Well, there must be users that have solved this question one way or another. What are your solutions? I have about two and a half weeks to sort it out or else I am going to have to severely limit the number of tracks I make etc. | ||
 | Written by gregor 73 months ago | |
| Hi Rob, From my experience some Internet cafés will let you install drivers to access your Garmin. I suggest taking Garmin software with and I believe you will find a café which will let you install it. There are also other GPS receivers which are sometimes more appropriate for traveling such as Emtac Trine or De Lorme BlueLogger. They both have bigger logging capacity, can be charged from a car baterry and come with software for PPC which lets you configure the logger and download tracks via bluetooth. Also other third party software for Symbian and PPC exist. You can get more information about various gps receivers from: http://triptracker.net/faq/#tips_for_traveling_with_a_gps_receiver regards -- gregor | ||
| Written by Canopus 72 months ago | |
| Hi gregor, Well, I managed to find the driver on the Garmin site. when I installed the Garmin MapSource software on my PC the driver was installed with it in one package, but, the one I downloaded was just the driver and only 1.5 MB compared to 13+ MB for the bundle. So, one little driver on my flash key ready to instal plus G7ToWin on it too and keeping my fingers crossed it may all work. The alternative could be to set the GPS to update every 15 mins. or even less while travelling by transport and switch to normal/auto update when taking photos or trekking and deleting superfluous parts of tracks. Glad I went to the Garmin site, have updated MapSource and GPS firmware. | ||
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| Written by gregor 58 months ago | |
| Currently in my opinion the best device for geotagging is the Sony GPS-CS1. It uses only one AA battery, works for about 10hrs and logs GPS points every 15s. Has memory for about a month of heavy traveling. And the best thing is that you don't need any software to use it. Just plug it in the USB slot and access it as a USB stick. | ||
| Re: Sony GPS-CS1 | ||
| Written by Harley 51 months ago, edited by Harley 51 months ago | |
| You need the software for the Sony GPS-CS1........ sure you can get the data from the unit (it works just like a 31MB USB stick), email it or stick it on a CD but if you want to add GPS tags to your photos then you must have the Sony Image Tracker software installed on the PC your using. Sony don't let you download the software (an update is available but you must already have the original software installed) so if your on a long journey and lose the software installation disk or have it stolen then you won't be able to tag your photos until you return home and if your travelling for a year or two then this is obviously very irritating. The battery lasts maybe 5 hours at best, there is no way in hell it lasts 10 hours. The unit works well enough even in mountainous areas, it doesn't like trees though. It would be a much better unit if it had a better battery lifespan, a rechargable battery similiar to the cameras would be nice. A small LCD which allowed you to read your GPS location could make it useful when reading maps too, unfortunately it doesn't have one of these. | ||
| Re: Sony GPS-CS1 | ||
 | Written by braco 51 months ago, edited by braco 51 months ago | |
| I can confirm that the Sony GPS-CS1 has good battery life, at least 8-10 hours on one AA battery. This was with high-end rechargeable batteries though. You do not need any software to get the GPS tracklog from the device. Obviously, you need to install software to geotag photos, but you can use any geotagging tool you wish. There are far better tools out there than what Sony bundles with the unit, including many free applications and web services. IMHO, you can throw away the CD that comes with the device and won't miss it at all. | ||