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A random collection of rants, reviews, and miscellaneous thoughts on everything from instructional technology to local restaurants.
i-GotU GT-120 Final Thoughts
As I stated in my last post, the i-GotU GT-120 was a pleasant surprise. The unit functions much better than the GT-100 that I purchased and returned last year. It geotagged images accurately from my little Nikon S50 camera. However, in my last tests I ran into some puzzling problems – not with the GT-120 [...]
Posted in Gear, Geocaching and Maps, Photography
i-GotU Revisited
A little over a year ago I tried out the i-GotU GT-100 GPS tracker from Mobile Action. At the time I was looking for a simple tracker for photo geotagging, and the GT-100′a small size and price ($49 from Amazon) were very appealing. I put the unit through a series of tests, and found it [...]
Posted in Gear, Geocaching and Maps, Photography
Getting More from Your Auto GPS
I figured it was time for a round-up. I’ve been talking a lot about doing various things with a GPS, but haven’t gone into much detail. Chances are that you got a GPS for your car because you feel like you’re directionally challenged, or you just the convenience of plugging in an address and getting [...]
Posted in Gear, Geocaching and Maps
South Carolina Heritage Corridor
While out driving the rural highways of South Carolina you may have come across a road sign with this symbol… Seeing a road sign like this lets you know that you are on either the South Carolina Discovery Route, or the South Carolina Nature Route, both parts of the South Carolina Heritage Corridor. On the [...]
Posted in Geocaching and Maps, Local, Travel
Geohashing – A Game Based on a Comic
The XKCD comic seen above came out around Christmas of 2006, and formed the basis for a new GPS activity – not necessarily going to a random location and making out, but using random numbers to generate latitude and longitude coordinates. The process of generating the random coordinates is called Geohashing. These coordinates serve as [...]
Posted in Geocaching and Maps
