Geostamping photos, is it possible on device?

[murf62]

I use a Mio a701 for Geocaching with GPS Dash v2.58 software and it seems to do everything I need it to apart from one thing. I would like to be able to take photos and have the lat/long read from the GPS & stamped onto the photo. Is anyone aware of any 3rd partysoftware that can do this?

I have looked at things like "RoboGeo" which compare the recorded track with EXIF data on a PC, but really would like the ease of doing it direct on the device.

I know this is slightly off topic for your forum, but I have asked in the usual Mio support forums. I would have thought such software (if it exists) could also be used on an XDA with a BT receiver also, so here I am ;)

TIA
Murf

[vijay555]

murf62 - welcome to the board.
I'm a fellow Mio A701 man, as of last week. Can I ask what forums you're using? I haven't seen many good dedicated ones, at least nothing as good as here. I've started one on my website just for the hell of it.

I've written a couple of apps to improve the system, I'm not particularly happy with it out of the box.

But I digress. This could be possible, but what app are you using take the photos, normal camera app?

V

[murf62]

Yeah, I'm using the normal camera app, but can't see any reason why a 3rd party app couldn't exist that grabs a pic from the camera and then stamps the lat/long onto it.

I have hunted high & low for such a thing and I'm pretty sure it doesn't currently exist. :shock:

I've had the Mio since release on 10 Mar and it's been great, these are the forums I currently use, I'm assuming it's ok to post them here as you asked & are a moderator ;)

http://www.fourpages.co.uk/mioA701/index.php
http://www.expansys.com/forum.asp?code=129999
http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=106
http://www.modaco.com/MiTAC_Mio_A701-f175.html

The bottom 2 are dying off now as most people have moved to the fourpages one.

I would be interested in apps you have written, what sort of things are you talking about?

[vijay555]

murf62: hey, four pages is great, I just Johnny Five'd the whole board into my limited Mental Storage Drive:
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:j_-Ri5n6aJXsGM:www.johnny-five.com/scrapbook/at-allfx.jpg

Seems like you run much of the board, at least the FAQs!
I'm awaiting my authorisation email :( Can't post yet.

Basically, I hate that there's no dedicated Power button. The red button is useless, it always switches itself on in my pocket, and takes me 30 seconds to switch off using the ShutDownApp.exe or whatever it's called.
I reverse engineered it and squirted the functionality into my VJEschaton (unreleased version), and used a regedit to bring the Camera app into Settings, and now assign power off to the camera button.

Next step is to rewrite or patch the keyboard driver to allow power on from the camera key, although I'm thinking of a better solution, writing my own screen lock to sidestep the problems (backlight coming on) with the current Rom version.

Next, I used VJOkButt to replace the functionality of the Red button, and used AE ButtonPlus to replace Vol Up/Down keys.

I spent an age configuring my Today screen, creating a new today theme to match my old WM2003 one, updating the Wiki on here very slightly with my findings. I then configured claunch to use as my Today screen dialer.

I've also written a small GPS test app.
I spent yesterday trying to install my father's TomTom 3, which failed, so gave TT5 a go. Works ok.

I'm going to try to write a release version of the GPS app, eventually, because currently I think you have to Kickstart the GPS with another app, and VisualGPS seems too CPU intensive for the job.

More to come. I've only had it out of the box for around 48 hours :)

Hopefully I'll look into the GPS stamping issue, if I can figure out and find a nice image manipulation library. But I have some other priorities on this board first (VJToggleToday, to maximise Today screen space. Works well on the Mio though).

V

[murf62]

I'm going to try to write a release version of the GPS app, eventually, because currently I think you have to Kickstart the GPS with another app, and VisualGPS seems too CPU intensive for the job.
You don't need to kickstart it this way if you use HW_COM & 57600 baud in tomtom instead of COM 4.

[vijay555]

But will that still use Ephemeris?

V

[murf62]

No it doesn't, but it still locks on pretty quickly. Typically, I get tomtom loaded & a good lock in around 60 seconds. (25 seconds or so of that is tomtom booting up, then another 10 or so while it finds the COM port).