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Are you adrift in a sea of digital pictures?

— If so, you need to take a look at the Pharos “Trips and Pics” — a GPS ‘geotagging’ system that might be the ultimate in vacation photo collecting.

The Pharos Trips & Pics is a self-contained geotagging package complete with GPS receiver, battery and interface software. About the size of two stacked matchboxes, the Trips and Pics is small enough to fit in a shirt pocket and light enough (only .15 lbs) to be hung around your neck.

Pharos is known for high-quality GPS devices and the Trips and Pics is no exception. The GPS receiver has an integrated patch antenna, 20 channel tracking and a 24 hour battery. It also has enough memory to log up to 45 days worth of GPS fixes.

Trips and Pics is compatible with any digital camera and the software will automatically tag each picture, placing them on your map of choice. — We used it with Google earth and were rewarded with a visual representation not only of our travels, but of the location of each and every single on of our photos.

Since it uses the time stamp of the photos and compares them against the time stamp of the GPS receiver log entries, each picture is placed on the map exactly where it was taken. The end result was that we had a fantastically detailed map of our path around the island, and a neatly organized trip photo album. If we wanted to, we could share this album with the world, or just with our friends — This changes the paradigm of the family photo album.

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Tom Tom, Garmin, Google Traffic can now provide traffic information based on GPS coordinates. Long before smartphones and GPS traffic routing technology, we developed almost 10 years ago an In-Vehicle Traveler Traffic Notification System Based on Location.

TIPS is to aid people in providing up-to-date information on the current traffic conditions. The system is designed using a laptop and a GPS receiver through a wireless card.

We pulled traffic information from Houston Transtar and provided traffic information using GPS and text to speech technology. This was our senior project for Houston Transtar while students at Texas A&M University.

Hardware:
Laptop
Garmin Cable
802.11b Wireless Card
Wireless AirCard
Cigarette Lighter Adapter
Data Power Cable for GPS
USB to Serial Converter
Garmin 76 GPS
2 – PC Workstations
1 – Server

Software Utilized
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0
Microsoft SQL 2000 Server
Microsoft Visio 2000
Microsoft Project 2002
Macromedia DreamWeaver
TightVNC

One of my greatest programs I’ve helped write. It took about 4 months to create. This was a team of three that created this program.

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https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=198122

This tutorial explains how to setup the gps cell phone app.

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The Garmin Oregon 300 comes preloaded with the basic base map with shaded relief. Other models in this line also come with either topographic, ocean or lakes basemaps as well for another hundred bucks or so. The screen is a bit tougher to read outdoors due to the matte finish on the screen. Indoor or low light performance is where it shines. Pun intended of course.

I can see the screen getting easily scratched due to the non glossy surface. The touch screen wasn’t as responsive as I’d like. It has a non glossy Scotch tape surface feel to it. I’m spoiled by the iPhone’s touchscreen I guess.

The 60CSx has the best overall readable screen both indoors and out. The eTrex Vista does pretty good outdoors due to its monochromatic display.

If you already own the 60CSx, you won’t be blown away by the Oregon series. In fact, the lack of location based POI (point of interest) interface is absent from the Oregon series which is a huge let down considering that the 60CSx included this very useful feature which allows you to search for nearby businesses by relevant category.

Also the quad helix antenna of the 60CSx performs better than the Oregon. Especially under tree cover.

Garmin makes great hardware, but their software needs some work. Their method for activating maps is a pain in the neck. You enter a certificate code, then they send you an unlock code which only works for ONE GPS unit. Oh, then you have to register your unit’s serial number to get it to work. I understand their anti-piracy thinking, but this process has turned many people off to Garmin. I had to contact their customer service in order for my setup to work since it failed to recognize my unlock codes.

The eTrex Vista does pretty good for what it is. The newer color versions have better chipsets for increased sensitivity over the older one shown here.

The iPhone MotionX GPS software is pretty cool too. The aGPS (assisted) on the iPhone has a weak GPS antenna chip, but makes up for it using Wi-Fi as well as cell phone towers to determine your current location. The seamless integration with Google maps is what makes this an awesome combination. More up to date maps and points of interest as well as the satellite imagery is awesome. When you are outside of the cellphone range and WiFi is not available, it will still get a location fix, but will take awhile and the accuracy is not that great.

Video shot with Canon PowerShot SD780IS in 1280×720 HD mode 30fps.

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You will need:

1-Google Earth
2-KML To GPX Converter 2
Get it here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=6cbc972553e3853e6e7203eb87368129f626555837fd9b5fb878de785cc0f59e

3-MapSource (Or EasyGPS)

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Visit http://garmin.blogs.com for more information.

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