Dan writes – “Shock-Proof your Garmin GPS to prevent unintended power-downs. I look at a couple different ways to make the fix, and actually do one of them. This project requires soldering a couple of fairly tricky connections inside the otherwise working GPS, so use caution.” – Link.
Street art google maps, you take photos of street art, geotag them, search/view with a Google map – Link. On a side note, please, please bring back geobloggers! Or something just like it. Related: HOW TO GPS Tag Photos: Flickr, Mappr, Google Earth…. – Link. How to Geotag – Link. HOW TO – geoTag images […]
PC Mag has some details on a new GPS navigation system that happens to be a digital camera that will geotag your photos. Finally! – “The Navman iCN 750 digital camera contains a GPS unit and display, so that users can “geostamp” their pictures, or perform traditional functions like receiving directions to a destination.” [via] […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Scalleja writes – “If you want to have the next feature in your photos “Click here to see where this photo was taken” just follow the following steps: 1.- Go to BeeLoop’s Lat/Lon to Flickr’s geoTags page. 2.- Move the map to the desired location and copy the geotagged text […]
Will O’Brien on Engadget has a how to on making an external antenna for a GPS – “If you crack open your GPS, you could extend the wire between the antenna and the internal antenna, but the loss from the extra wire would degrade the signal. But active antennas amplify the signal to get past […]
A while back I needed to put some GPS projects on a screen that looped, they’re sorta fun to look at – like the GPS walking stick and GPS MP3 player (plays songs based on where you are)…and GPS dog, so here you go.
Michiel writes – “GPS Visualizer allows you to upload from GPX, OziExplorer, Geocaching.com (.loc), IGC sailplane logs, Garmin Forerunner (.xml/.hst), Timex Trainer (v1.3+), Cetus GPS, PathAway, cotoGPS, CompeGPS, TomTom (.pgl), IGN Rando (.rdn), Emtac Trine, Suunto X9/X9i (.sdf), NetStumbler/WiFiFoFum, and of course tab-delimited or comma-separated text. (phew) The outputs are GPS SVG, JPEG/PNG, and Google […]
