Comments on: But Sleep Won’t Come the Whole Night Through/Your GPS Will Tell On You http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/05/11/but-sleep-wont-come-the-whole-night-throughyour-gps-will-tell-on-you/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:31:08 -0500 hourly 1 By: John Biggs http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/05/11/but-sleep-wont-come-the-whole-night-throughyour-gps-will-tell-on-you/comment-page-1/#comment-219863 John Biggs Fri, 11 May 2007 23:29:23 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/05/11/but-sleep-wont-come-the-whole-night-throughyour-gps-will-tell-on-you/#comment-219863 I agree. It's pretty cool. They really talked up the "cheating" angle. I agree. It’s pretty cool. They really talked up the “cheating” angle.

]]> By: Sascha http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/05/11/but-sleep-wont-come-the-whole-night-throughyour-gps-will-tell-on-you/comment-page-1/#comment-219794 Sascha Fri, 11 May 2007 22:08:12 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/05/11/but-sleep-wont-come-the-whole-night-throughyour-gps-will-tell-on-you/#comment-219794 Would have been nice to write this article with a lit bit more seriousness, since this device is actually pretty cool. I just bought the Trackstick II (which is the smaller brother of the Super Trackstick) and I've been playing around with it for the last couple of days, and I like the accuracy of the data very much. They claim 8 feet horizontal accuracy on the website, and indeed I can even see which side of the road I was driving on and where I was walking around. It measures altitude and speed in addition to the coordinates. However, the main reason why I bought this is for geotagging of photos. For that reason I wrote a little tool that takes the exported GoogleEarth data (since it's XML as compared to the internal binary trackstick file format) and a folder with photos and finds the closest match to the time in the EXIF data of the photo and the recorded GPS data to geotag it. The tool is primarily meant to work with Flickr, and as soon as I got it stabilized a bit more I will put it up for download (+ source) on my blog. I am by no means advertizing my blog here (and I don't have any contextual ads, AdSense or anything on it, so I wouldn't profit from it anyway!), but if anyone comes across this post and has the same (or any other kml-format exporting) GPS recorder device and would like to try the software, that would be the place to look for it. It might take another week or two before I put it up for download, though, since I'm in the middle of working on some other important stuff. Would have been nice to write this article with a lit bit more seriousness, since this device is actually pretty cool.

I just bought the Trackstick II (which is the smaller brother of the Super Trackstick) and I’ve been playing around with it for the last couple of days, and I like the accuracy of the data very much. They claim 8 feet horizontal accuracy on the website, and indeed I can even see which side of the road I was driving on and where I was walking around. It measures altitude and speed in addition to the coordinates.

However, the main reason why I bought this is for geotagging of photos. For that reason I wrote a little tool that takes the exported GoogleEarth data (since it’s XML as compared to the internal binary trackstick file format) and a folder with photos and finds the closest match to the time in the EXIF data of the photo and the recorded GPS data to geotag it. The tool is primarily meant to work with Flickr, and as soon as I got it stabilized a bit more I will put it up for download (+ source) on my blog.

I am by no means advertizing my blog here (and I don’t have any contextual ads, AdSense or anything on it, so I wouldn’t profit from it anyway!), but if anyone comes across this post and has the same (or any other kml-format exporting) GPS recorder device and would like to try the software, that would be the place to look for it. It might take another week or two before I put it up for download, though, since I’m in the middle of working on some other important stuff.

]]> By: Marc http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/05/11/but-sleep-wont-come-the-whole-night-throughyour-gps-will-tell-on-you/comment-page-1/#comment-219723 Marc Fri, 11 May 2007 20:56:46 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/05/11/but-sleep-wont-come-the-whole-night-throughyour-gps-will-tell-on-you/#comment-219723 ...and law enforcement DOES NOT need a Judge's 'say-so' in order to use this type of device on your mode of transportation! …and law enforcement DOES NOT need a Judge’s ’say-so’ in order to use this type of device on your mode of transportation!

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