Garmin 450 and geotagging

I have looked around for a new mapping GPS and I think
Garmin 450 will do all the things I need. However I am not
sure about one point: Can I use this device for geotagging
my photos?

Right now I use a cheap logging device from a manufacturer who shall
remain nameless. The device works but the software is crap and the
support is even worse! By the time you put all the fragmented logs
together you wish you carried a notebook and pencil and took a manual log.

curious what camera you have....
As I understand Geotagging - you have to merge the GPS location log file &
time clock info
with the date & timestamps on your photos to create a "geotagged" photo.
That would imply you need two major elements:
1 - Camera with a date AND time coding capability... only usually see
datestamps
2 - GPS with tracking/logging breadcrumb trail that can be downloaded and
used.

On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:41:47 -0500, ps56k wrote:


Are you sure?

Any time I've looked, on any camera I've looked into, the date and time are
both present.

Naturally, I can't speak for any camera that I haven't used, but I've used
quite a few...


3. Software that can correlate the GPS breadcrumbs with the photo metadata,
unless you (for some value of 'you') are willing to do the work manually.

4. And don't forget to match the camera's clock with the clock on the GPS
:-)

At least, #4 is true for the breadcrumb device I have. I imagine a bit of
inaccuracy is OK, depending on the software, unless you're traveling pretty
fast. Like photos taken from a car at 60 mph will be a mile off if the
camera differs from the GPS by a minute.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

ps56k wrote on Jul 16, 2010:


For what it's worth, I do this with a Canon PowerShot camera and a Garmin
GPSmap 76Cx. All I have to do if I'm intending to take photos, is to remember
to switch the GPS on each morning and carry it with me all the time. It then
writes a tracklog each day which can be matched with any photos I take.

I recently went away for a month and came back with around 650 photos, and 30
tracklogs on the GPS. It took a few minutes on the computer to geotag all the
photos. The tracklogs are also interesting to keep as they can be loaded into
Google Earth which then shows a track of one's exact movements each day.
--
Mike Lane
UK North Yorkshire
mike_lane at mac dot com

you're both right - Gene & Mike -
sorry.... I was living in the past.... for a moment...
I somehow was "picturing" my old Olympus film camera with just the
"datestamp",
even though I have a Canon Powershot SD 1000
and our son has the SD 780 he used in Germany...
yeah - of course it has the real "file datestamp" -