Sony GPS-CS1 - on its way

Posted by muesli in Photography, Tech & Net
Thursday, September 14. 2006

Just ordered at sonystyle.co.uk: Sony GPS-CS1. So looking forward to this little device. It records your GPS position automatically every 15 seconds and stores it in memory. You can then just plug it into your computer and sync the positions with the images you took. Et voila: you end up with perfectly tagged images, that you can view on a (world-)map.

Oh by the way, even though Sony officially only claims it's compatible with CyberShot and other Sony cameras, I can assure you that it's actually compatible with any camera / JPEG files in general. When you plug in the device, you can simply mount it as a disc. You'll find proper NMEA GPS logs which you can import in most GPS mapping software.

Short specs:
- Runs on standard AA batteries (14h per battery).
- Capacity for aprox. 86.400 (360h) position records.
- Stores one record every 15 seconds.

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Wow thats pretty ingenious. It works in Linux? Would be cool for Flickr.

But only 14 hours, makes it hard for vacations where it would be most handy.

#1 Ian Monroe on 2006-09-15 08:45 (Reply)

14h? No, 360h! With one AA battery. They claim. I'm not yet sure how much data capacity it offers, though. If you have to sync it with the PC after 86.400 records or if that is just the aprox. runtime on one battery. I'll find out and report. The cool thing about this device: it's actually just a general GPS device. All the data is available in textfiles and you can do with it what you want. Nobody forces you to just sync your images with it... Keep track of your routes and create statistics of your daily milage

#1.1 muesli (Homepage) on 2006-09-15 18:02 (Reply)

Well 360 on one AA... thats entirely usable for a vacation. Awesome.

Of course, I still need a working camera...

#1.1.1 Ian Monroe (Homepage) on 2006-09-19 10:22 (Reply)

turns out you were right! it is 14h on one battery. apparently it was some mix-up with the total device capacity, which not only confused me, but apparently also the authors from digital camera magazine, where i originally read about the device.

sorry for the wrong info,
muesli

#1.1.1.1 muesli (Homepage) on 2006-09-20 00:53 (Reply)

oh, and yes: it's supposed to work with Linux. you just mount it like an usb stick. cause it actually is one - that's what you read on the intarweb at least. will report tonight. currently waiting for delivery.

#1.2 muesli (Homepage) on 2006-09-15 18:04 (Reply)

Yes, I confirm that it really works on linux : it's currently mounted (automatically, as a USB key) on my Ubuntu 6.06 laptop. It even works when there's no battery inside.
Great feature. Thank's Sony.

#1.2.1 vdb on 2006-10-23 16:21 (Reply)

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