Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Low-cost GPS logger

I had tested a small gadget called GPS logger from Columbus Visiontac.
Complete product name-description is:

Columbus V-900 Bluetooth GPS Data Logger (microSD , Voice Tag for POI, Driverless, Push to Log, 25 millions waypoints*, XP / Vista/ Linux / Mac OSX Compatible)

I tested it on some trips about a year ago. It is out of stock on most websites now, I don't know whats going on, but I have it and it is a cool little device both for fun and for field research. The cool feature is if you carry your digital camera and set up time in it to minute upon return to office you can link those pictures with Lat/Long and post on Google Earth for other to review. Or you can collect voice notes or waypoints and then load them to your PC and merge with other measurements. If you have it in your car all the time, it trucks your routs and date-stamp them so you can review notes and places you've been and merge that with soil maps, satellite imagery, etc. Indispensable for mobile Ag Consultant! I even tried to log EC data from Landmapper to merge with locations. It has worked a year ago, but now dis-organized as I am, I lost manual and software which came with it for PC communication. It still works and I have a whole bunch of data on it from recent trip to Winnie, TX - I was there mapping soil salinity on rice fields, but I cannot get it out!:( I will continue searching internet and my house, but may be someone can help with this??? Ok, that was pretty easy. Here is manufacturer website for downloads.Current versions are
Columbus V-900 User Manual V1.2 English Version updated 08-11-10 1.29M
Time Album V1.8 English Version
Updated: 10-03-31  1132K

 I will try to set up my new laptop with this and get those data out!
Setup instruction:
  1. Download and install Java (free, click here to download). It will ask you to verify your version of Java.
  2. Download and unzip the Time Album application (see link above).
  3. Launch the TimeAlbum application by double clicking on the unzip file above.

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