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lightwork
February 1st, 2003, 01:02 PM
Is there a GPS module available for the S2? The software with the camera certainly has a page for the information or do we have to put this in manually for each photograph? any information would be appreciated as I have contracts where grid references for each landscape are required.
Swampy
February 1st, 2003, 05:09 PM
I'd be interested in that as well, but I doubt that there is one. Right now, I have Streets and Trips 2002 and I have to go in and use the location tool and hover the mouse over where I was when I took the pictures. Not exactly perfect information, but it's something at least.

Bryan
jknights
February 2nd, 2003, 05:43 AM
No sure how this would work unless it was an interface to a computer that had a GPS working on it.

To talk to a GPS you need a serial interface to enable the NMEA data to be transmitted. It works this way on Nikon D1X but it only receives the data from the GPS and puts it in the EXIF data of the exposure.

Use of firewire is theorethically possible (I believe) but certainly beyond my capability in electronics and programming.
Swampy
February 2nd, 2003, 06:48 AM
They have USB GPS Receivers... :) The software capability in the S2 doesn't support any kind of GPS funtionality, so the camera wouldn't be able to do it on it's own.

Maybe... While shooting with the camera software and saving to the hard drive direct from the camera with a GPS receiver on that computer... Have to look at the camera shooting software to see if that supports it.
kari
February 2nd, 2003, 10:58 PM
hi

i asked this same question some months ago in several forums and the answer was that s2 can't produce gps data or handle it. some canon models have this availability. if you can attach gps machine in to your computer and import data then you can manually attach that info to extif if you have such program to do that. in viewer you can't do anything except see data info.
pc software like exifer or IrfanView can help you alot
kari
February 3rd, 2003, 01:20 AM
hi again!

my mistake, about that infanview what i was thinking was iptcext, from

http://photothumb.com/iptcext/

sorry about that ;-)
alex
February 3rd, 2003, 06:32 AM
Remember that the s2 has voice recording.
Buy a simple gps system and bring in the coordinates
by voice memo.
Thats the most cheapest solution.

alex from holland:)
jknights
February 3rd, 2003, 12:38 PM
Alex,

This seems like a good KISS solution.

The alternative is as Swampy suggests which would be to capture via a cut'n'paste (I guess) from a GPS enabled application tracking where you were pasting into the Exif info for the photo that you have just shot.
May be a bit clunky but this would work.

I think I would use my D1X as it has it all built in. ;-)