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I think I started something..

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Sean
on May 2, 2007
in Photography, Social Networking, Technology and Work
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I’ve been following Lunch 2.0 for awhile now, but I had gotten the idea that it was for people who worked at “Web 2.0″ companies to talk about “Web 2.0″ type stuff. So I never actually signed up, and just followed along vicariously. However, recently (after hibernating, apparently) they started things up again and the first lunch is at LinkedIn, a social networking site I’ve been playing with in the past few months. In talking to my co-workers, they mentioned how they felt a lot of pressure to accept invitations from co-workers, even ones they didn’t really care for. I can understand that, especially if they’re current co-workers. That having been said, I’m trying to only accept invites from people that I interact(ed) with reasonably often.

So without really thinking about it, I posted to the Lunch 2.0 blog saying I’d be there. After I did it though, I (erroneously) posted again, saying I probably wouldn’t because of my impression of the “rules”. But Terry quickly set me straight about how things worked. Hopefully this will encourage more lurkers to show up at these events.

Robogeo 5.0 supports GPS-CS1

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Sean
on November 6, 2006
in GPS, Photography, Technology and Work
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Just noticed this. Work has been really busy lately.

Sony GPS-CS1 Review: They did it right!

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Sean
on September 11, 2006
in GPS, Photography and Technology
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When I heard that Sony had announced a standalone GPS logger, the GPS-CS1, I was hopeful and fearful at the same time, especially once I saw it would be bundled with software that was only “guaranteed to work with Sony Cameras”. Well, I picked one up today, and I can safely say that Sony did it right. When you plug it into your computer, it shows up as a USB flash disk, with a GPS subdirectory. Inside that directory are a series of text files that are NMEA GPS logs. Everything is logged in GMT, including the timestamps on the files. (which makes sense when you think about it).

I downloaded a demo of RoboGEO, a commercial win32 geotagging program, as it was the first program I found. After deleting the first line of the test log file I made (sony puts in a line to identify the log file came from its device) RoboGEO was able to import the resulting NMEA file with no problems and tag the quick shots I made in the parking lot. According to the manual, it will record a location every 15 seconds, and battery life is approximately 360 hours on a single AA battery. From that you should get about 86,400 time/location records.

The device itself looks pretty nice too, with a carabiner included so you can hang it off your backpack or camera bag. That having been said, it’s not anything-proof. Not waterproof, water-resistant, dustproof, hot car for extended periods of time proof, magneticproof, dog slobber proof, you name it, Sony says to keep this thing away from it. So, the bottom line is if you’re looking for a (albeit expensive at $150) simple standalone GPS logger that will work (with minor tweaking) with pretty much any geotagging software out there, I don’t think you can beat this thing.

Update: The GPS Image Tracker software that comes with it will work with any JPEG pictures. However, it doesn’t properly account for DST, but you can adjust the timezone for any gps log that’s been imported.