![]() But a GPS connected via USB doesn't present itself as an USB device, needing an USB driver to be installed? The NMEA would be at a higher layer. I must admit I haven't studied those protocols so I might be off. The GPS will use the standard NMEA protocol. ![]() Hi, I am not assuming it is using the USB protocol just a cable that uses a mini usm plug on the 3rd party end. to view in Google Earth. No intellectual property worries just keeping my family up to date of my whereabouts with photos of the towns and villages I have visited. I could pay the $250 but.$50 sounds better.if it works.if not.well gave me a little challenge.Thanks I could then save this file as a KMZ and send to my extended family in the Uk, US, Canada, Australia, and NZ. the location where the photos were taken and the views from that area. Using GPS coordinates tagged to my photos, ACDSEE will import these photos around my route showing approx. With this logger, which generates a gpx file I can enter my route into ACDSEE 6 google maps, which gives me a satellite view of my route. I use an onboard GPS unit, part of my NavSat which tracks and logs my entire journey. I use the canal systems of Europe and all journeys are entered into a ship's log. Hi Simon, I would like GPS coordinates on my photographs, so to me it comes first. I imagine landscape photographers would not like to declare their perfect positioning following a long time researching or stumbling across the perfect shot. I don't know of anyone else who needs to know or wants to know either! I find it fun trying to work out where exactly I was then it means more. I couldn't care less about the exact position I took a photograph. My thinking was people bought this for the Astrotracer functionality and the GPS came second. You'd have to reverse engineer it, starting from a camera and an OEM GPS module not something anyone would do. Your assumption that it's using the USB communication protocol is wrong. It's not a matter of simply linking a GPS module to the hotshoe, a communication protocol is used - and there are no public information about it. The 3rd party off camera flash cord would have the correct contacts on the flash end to be able to splice and solder the wires on the other end, onto the usb cable that comes with the 3rd party GPS unit I am going to give it a go anyway, just wondered if someone else on the forum had maybe tried it. The GPS unit for the Pentax K-30 mounts where the flash sits and uses the flash hot shoe contacts to enter the GPS info into the Exif header of the photo's. Guess we are stuck with buying a camera with the GPS module built in. You also need hardware to talk to the USB in the GPS.įlash interface is a lot different than a GPS host.Įven the USB interface on most cameras will not work - it is designed to be the slave side rather than the host. You need software in the camera to receive the GPS data and then put it in the EXIF metadata.
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