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Eric wrote:
Forgot to add/ ask.....
I assume the map mode uses the gps detail from the camera or you have to input coordinates yourself?
As I haven't got gps feature on my current or previous cameras, (I don't think so?) I presume I would need to input the data manually for the last 40 years of photography....that's after scanning the 25 years pre digital of course.
That's an awful lot of work to get them on a 2click map?
Well, it is and it isn't... Most of your work is a confined location, an hotel or factory, all the images can probably be bundled to that location with perhaps separate location pins for internal and external images?. The vast majority of my images I have added the co-odinants by hand, but that just consists of dragging all the images to the map location. No actual data entry.
I have a Garmin hand held unit which has an RS232 output which I have added an adapter to allow attachment to a D200 ten pin socket. I used it at large botanic gardens so I could identify the location, it's apparently accurate to a few feet. I then use that camera to photograph the plant name tag, while using the main camera to photograph the plant. Dumping the lot into a folder then into Lightroom, provided the clocks in both cameras are in sync the GPS images are alongside the plant images, so it's very simple to add the plant images to the name tag image, which already has the GPS co-ordinates.
I have found the iPhone so erratic with it's GPS locations that I gave up on that one. One batch of photo's I took were about eight miles out.
When adding the GPS locations at somewhere like Cadwell Park I just drag to images to the most appropriate location marker, I think that's better than having a hundred slightly different locations which could result from using 'on camera' GPS
As a retrospective thing I doubt the merit of adding GPS co-ordinates especially for one-off work images which you are never going to even look at again but if you visit a location repeatedly, different seasons and maybe different cameras/lenses, to be able to go to that location and pull out all the images you have decided to keep is in my opinion a great help. I have sometimes forgotten some photographs but not the location, clicking the location overcomes the memory loss and produces everything without searching through folders.
All my photo files are in folders marked "yy-mm-dd brief description", which puts the folders in date sort order.
I do have some of my images keyword but I find keyboarding so tedious that I don't keep it up to date as I should.
Going to have to have a round computer debate on this, Robert. I am getting a Mac later in the year so I may have to kidnap you for a weekend.
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Eric