Gps for d 610

gizmo285

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Does anyone own a Gps fpr their 610? How does it work and what does the metadata look like? Can you use it on googlr earth or is it a PITA?

Thb[anks.
 

Fortkentdad

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I'd like to know too.

I did learn that if I connect the wifi gizmo I bought to wirelessly tether to my android tablet I get complete control of the camera functions and it adds GPS based on the tablet location. But it is a bit of a bother to set up. Downside is that you still need to zoom and move the camera by hand. But adding GPS to the metadata worked fine.
 

Horoscope Fish

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Does anyone own a Gps fpr their 610? How does it work and what does the metadata look like? Can you use it on googlr earth or is it a PITA?
In my admittedly limited experience the Nikon solution, the GP-1A, sucks. Period. There are third-party options that work far better, such as the GMAX or the GeoTagger N3, both from Solmeta, which I would suggest you consider if you have need to geotag your phots on the regular.

The EXIF data will contain the coordinate data. Once you have that you can plug the coordinates into Google Earth or Google Maps. I don't think you the metadata can interface with either application in any sort of automated fashion but I don't really know for sure.
 

Jerry_

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For having the Nikon GPS receiver I must say that it is not their best piece of hardware. Indeed it is a relatively poor receiver (takes long to get the position, easily looses the signal between two captures, gets no position when you have a cloudy sky or when buildings are to close, etc.) and it sucks the camera battery.

That being said it inserts the GPS coordinates directly into the EXIF metadata, so you have it available out of the camera.

Whether these coordinates can be shown with Google Earth depends on your program for viewing.
 
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RocketCowboy

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I haven't used the Solmeta solution, but it does seem to be more popular than Nikon's GP-1A. I haven't pulled the trigger on one yet, instead I'm using a smartphone app to capture coordinates that I later add to the images via LightRoom in post.

I've heard that the GP-1A negatively impacts camera battery life in two ways ... one, it depends on the camera body for power, so it's leaching power from the camera's battery when it's on. Two, because the GP-1A takes so long to acquire a GPS lock, it encourages you to disable letting your camera sleep to save power ... consequently both the GP-1A and the camera are using more power than they need to all of the time.
 

Bob Blaylock

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In my admittedly limited experience the Nikon solution, the GP-1A, sucks. Period. There are third-party options that work far better, such as the GMAX or the GeoTagger N3, both from Solmeta, which I would suggest you consider if you have need to geotag your phots on the regular.

What strikes me is how expensive Nikon's GP-1A is, compared to a host of viable third-party alternatives. I know that in general, you should expect a genuine Nikon part to be pricier than a comparable aftermarket item, but $300+ for the GP-1A compared to about $50 for just about every third-party counterpart is a bit on the ridiculous side.

What I really wish someone would come out with, is a device like the GP-1A, that supports ГЛОНАСС as well as GPS. My Samsung cell phone supports and uses both, and it is clear to me that by doing so, it gets much better results than is possible with GPS alone.
 

Griso

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I did try out (a few years back) some Mac/iPhone software. You ran the GPS tracking software on your phone while you're out shooting, then when you get back load your photos into/through the desktop software and it added the GPS co-ordinates (that it tied up with the time on your route recorded on your phone).

It did work well enough, but can't remember what it was called, I'm afraid. Just a thought.
 
I have been using a app called GPS Tracks - Background location tracking for iPhone on my iPhone that works great. It is also very easy to use with Lightroom. You just run the app while you are out shooting and when through you just save and I export the GPX file to Dropbox. When I get home I import the file directly into Lightroom and it sync all the photos I shot to the location I shot each photo. Sounds a little complex but is quite easy. Lightroom will then show you a map where each photo was shot and the coordinates are added to the EXIF data for each photo.
 

cwgrizz

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Geosetter is another free program for putting photos and GPX files together that you have from a GPS or your phone.
 
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