i-gotU GT-120 Travel Blog Master (USB GPS, Data Logger, SiRF III Chipset) (Bumper Case, Data Cable and Software Included) (GT-120)

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B001IMJV0E
• Item model number: GT-120
• Batteries: 1 Lithium ion batteries required.
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)

Product Description

What's New: # Larger memory capacity for long trips: 64,000 waypoints. 4 times memory then GT-100 # 30% less power consumption vs GT-100 # Faster satellite acquisition: <35 sec vs 60 sec with GT-100 How It Works: # Make sure your digital camera time is correct # Power on the GPS Travel Logger outdoors # Wait auto-positioning and locate your current position # Take the GPS Travel Logger with you when taking photo

Customer Reviews

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great dog tracker, January 26, 2010

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R. Zirkel (Hill Country of Texas) - See all my reviews
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I live on 20 acres surrounded by much larger properties and there are large gaps in our fence and when our dogs were disappearing for several hours at a time I wanted to know where they were going. Using this little device I logged them going everywhere they were not supposed to go and places I had no idea they could get to. The track was so good I could even determine that they had been chasing something through the hills. I found an old knife case that fit on their collar and made it waterproof by putting it in a baggy. Came back wet on the outside and dry on the inside.
They are now grounded and lost their run privelidges. Now I am going to find a new use for this great little gadget. Worked great and software was very easy to use.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for Geotagging, April 5, 2010

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Damian P. Gadal (Santa Barbara, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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Geotagging images is important to me. I know where they were taken, but it's an issue of public access to the where and when of an image.

We're not at the point of having all cameras equipped with built in GPS. It's just a matter of time before this happens. In the meantime, if you want to geotag an image, you either find a GPS unit that works with your specific camera, or you do it manually.

What I've noticed is that doing it manually is a lot of trouble for most folks(I know it's time consuming for me), so a lot of people will just indicate what city, or state, or maybe just the country they were in at the time a particular photo was taken, or the indicate nothing at all and leave you guessing.

For me, this just doesn't work. In fact, even though I manually tag all of my photos on a map after they've been uploaded to flickr, and carry around a GPS unit on trips to areas I'm not completely familiar with, I want a better and more accurate way of geotagging images, that lets me cut down on the time it takes.

The problem is that I've got several digital cameras, going the route of getting a GPS unit for each camera doesn't work. Not all the cameras will support this.

What to do? Well, I did some research and found the i-gotU unit which will support any camera, provided the images are shot in jpg format.

It's a little stand alone GPS device, very simple and in fact the only button it has is to turn it on, and it's about the size of a matchbox.

I tried it for the last few days, and have been very impressed with it. I made sure that my camera's clock was set the same as that of the i-gotU (which is how this thing works) and then went out and took some pictures.

After returning home, I downloaded the images I took, and plugged in the I-gotU GPS device and had it map my images. It was spot on. It even saved the info to the EXIF data.

I'm going to love this thing. I wish it worked with camera RAW files, but for the time being it doesn't and it's not too much trouble for me to work around this limitation. In fact, I've already found a freeware solution that uses the gpx data and will work with RAW images.

Still, I can't wait for the day when this doesn't have to be done and cameras come equipped with built in GPS.

I do wish this had a little case that I could clip to my belt or camera strap, but that's a minor issue.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm loving it!!, September 3, 2009

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Debbie Scott "Only looking for things that ma... (Moorpark, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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From the first time I saw this logger it was love at first site! I was using the AMOD AGL3080 and was somewhat disappointed with the size of it...and that it kept banging against me as I was walking (I had it attached to the camera strap), it also would get in the way when I'd try to take macro photos or wanted to get a different angled shot.

This unit is so small that I hardly notice it on my camera strap. I have no trouble with a satellite finding it when I start it in the RV (or even inside the house for that matter). The biggest plus is the rechargeable battery that gets charged when you plug the included cable into your computer. Another plus is the included software that makes it so easy to get your logs from the unit, synchronize your photos and upload it all to the a-[...]website. I love the help that is available both on and offline.

If you're just getting into geotagging your photos I highly recommend this unit.