Like a kid at the playground

Train ride from Delhi to Agra, originally uploaded by kevinbhookun.

Slums between Delhi and Agra (2006)

Tall grass in the bog, originally uploaded by kevinbhookun.

and I am looking forward to it.

What kind of DAM process do I use?
Digital Assets Management has been a no-brainer for me since the introduction of Adobe Lightroom and Apple’s response Aperture a couple years ago. A lot has happened since then. Plugins and add-ons emerged to make the workflow easier. Gone are the days of fiddling with folders and finder items, or are they really?

Here are the results of Test #2, still no hike/walk/run, this time bus to the city. This includes tunnels, overpasses, intermitant loss of signal – This is where the unit just draws a straight line until it picks up the signal again.

Verdict: Considering the CS1 being inside my bag, and me being inside a bus, going in tunnels, under highways etc, this is still pretty acceptable. The next test will be the true to the task test, hiking and actually geo-coding images.
Tools I find useful:
Loadmytracks.app (free) easily reads NMEA …

This one is about using Sony GPS CS1KASP on a macbook pro, with leopard, iphoto ‘09

Because there is a difference…
Since having iPhoto ‘09, my interest in geotagging images has been revived. I am now victim of this new obsession of getting GPS location embedded in my vacation images. Why? no real reason, just the “Cool” factor, and the fact that it is afterall not that difficult to do. It is not difficult but it can get expensive and you can easily get carried away into spending hundreds of dollars in cool gadgets that can do just about as much as I will explain below. …