8 Pages Tagged “GPS”
Reviews
- Canon Camera Connect ★★★☆☆ As you’d expect, this app connects to Canon cameras. It still lets you send location data to the camera, pull photos to the phone, or use the phone as a remote. But it insists on a cloud login now (it didn’t before), even if you’re only using the local functions.
- Fossify Camera ★★★⯪☆ Basic camera app with support for flash, timer and video, optional EXIF. Lacks advanced processing like night sight. Images are slightly noisier than Google’s camera.
- Mobile Apps and Preserving Photo Metadata You’d think that ‘don’t change the stuff that the user isn’t changing’ would be a low bar, but most image editors I’ve used on Android tend to mess up the EXIF metadata one way or another.
Tech Tips
- Remove GPS Tags After Taking a Photo Google Photos won’t remove GPS data from an image, but you can easily remove just the location data using a desktop or laptop.
Blog Posts
- Pokédrones
A few years back, Niantic posted about a geospatial model they were building using Pokémon Go players’ scans of Pokéstops. This week that model is back in the news, since it’s being used for military drone navigation.
- GPS Navigation Options We Need
GPS navigation options we need: I know how to get to the freeway from home. I know how to get home from the freeway. Don’t send me down someone else’s narrow residential streets just to save two minutes. If I’m trying to get somewhere other than home after work, I’ll use GPS to get an […]
- Google GPS Navigation Needs Traffic Prediction
On a long trip, traffic conditions change. Google Maps uses historic data to show weekday averages, so why not factor it into travel time in navigation?
- GPS Navigation Convert (Sort of)
After avoiding GPS navigation for years, I’ve discovered something I like about it: avoiding traffic congestion.