Saturday, July 05, 2008

Route logging

Last Google Earth -28juneto5july.kml

As you will have noticed we have been logging our daily route and publishing it as a Google Earth file.
This has been done with the aid of a small box of electronics called a GPS bug (eBAY).
Then this data has been processed using LOCR to put the lat/long info in to the header of the photos - it is missing on some of them, I had trouble uploading photos at the beginning of the journey, and lost the info whilst editing.
The 'bug' can be set to turn on and off by vibration, or only work above a certain speed. Wonderful for use in a car but turned out not to be useful on a boat! So in the end I set it to record data every 30 seconds and just started it before we left in the mornings, and tried to remember to stop it when we finished for the day,
The only problem we encountered was after a tunnel you need to allow time to re-acquire the satellites or the logging stops.

I can give more details to anyone who wants it.

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