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| PocketGPSWorld.com IFA 2007 Review
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A brief run down of IFA 2007 at the Messe in Berlin. by MaFt |
| In general there are not that many companies offering something different. You can walk through the halls and see the same PND from 5 or 6 different companies just with a different badge on the front. The challenge for me during my one day at IFA was not only to find out what the big players were up to but also to see what unique line they had taken to make it stand out from the rest. Obvious attractions were the new Mio C620 the first unit to utilise the 3D map data, Nav N Go's iGO MyWay 8 (another 3D-er); TomTom's Enhanced Positioning System is a great idea for improving position accuracy with low GPS signals; the I-gotU data logger with, for a change, decent software, caught my eye too and Garmin have, finally, released a PND with a qwerty keyboard! |
I-GotU
This is a GPS data-logger with software for linking to time/date from digital camera etc. It is nicely packaged for mass-market and should be available by mid-October. The data-logger stores 16,000 points and can be set to take a reading from 5 seconds to 10 minutes and you can also schedule it to only log certain time of the day eg Mon-Fri 9am-5pm. It is 'Level 8' water resistant and complete with a 'jelly' case that an be attached to a belt, watch strap, lanyard, dog's collar etc. The software seems easy to use and has good features. Simply connect the device to the PC to export the log then import your photos. The photos are then matched to the GPS log according to the time in the EXIF data but you can manually adjust it if the time is wrong! It also highlights any photos who's time-code does not match any of the data-points. Once imported you can view the track in the software which utilises Google Earth / Google Maps.
Photo's can be viewed along the track and the whole journey can then be exported in HTML, or KML or can be uploaded directly to Flickr, Picasa and Google Earth. There are 2 versions USB and Bluetooth, the latter being slightly larger. Both can be used as either a standalone data logger or as a GPS-receiver.
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