The JOBO Photo GPS is a small, detachable device, designed to record latitude, longitude and altitude of every shot you take.The JOBO Photo GPS comes with Jobo’s Photo GPS software which allows you to tag this geographical information onto your pictures.
Setting up the GPS receiver is easy provided you’re online, while installing the photo GPS software takes just 10mins, and charging the unit takes around two hours.
Once charged and mounted on the camera’s hotshoe the receiver records GPS data as the shutter is fired and all successful GPS captures are acknowledged with a green flash of the unit’s LED.
Once you’ve returned home you can attach the recorded GPS data to your images using the Photo GPS software. The data from the GPS unit and software is added to the IPTC data of each image by clicking the ‘Tag Photos’ button and you can then view your tagged photos on a map of the world if you have Google Earth (http://earth.google.com) installed on your computer.
The whole process is easy, but you can’t help feeling that this all needs to happen automatically for it to be truly useful. An option for local mapping (such as GB Ordnance Survey grid refs) rather than latitude and longitude figures would also be desirable. The GPS accuracy was impressive, though, and placed pointers on the map just 8-10m away from each of the shots we had taken.
If positioning data is important to you, a GPS gadget is the way to go, and this one works well. The £157 price tag doesn’t make it a cheap buy, however, and the fact that we’ve already seen the first integral GPS system introduced in Nikon’s P6000 means chances are GPS systems will find their way into cameras, just as they have with phones. If you need GPS data on your pics though, this unit is sound.
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