QSTARZ BT-Q1000 GPS data logger syncs with Google Earth

QSTARZ is taking its familiarity with GPS receivers and integrating a data logger to form the newfangled BT-Q1000. This two-faced device doubles as a Bluetooth GPS receiver to navigate your course and allows you to "record your routes" in order to plot points on Google Earth and disseminate the map to your envious pals. Moreover, you can use the device to more accurately tag where your travel photos were snapped along the way, and if you're in the fleet management biz, this here tool can keep your motorists from straying too far off the beaten path. Designed to last a whopping 32-hours without a recharge, the BT-Q1000 can make your next journey a whole lot more memorable for $119 when it lands later this month.

[Alex Killby @ Jun 15th 2007 11:25PM]

I wonder if Google will somehow make this tracked data available to Google Maps, this could be something fun to put on your blog as sort of a (places I've been) map.

[Marcos Kohler @ Jun 15th 2007 11:46PM]

You can easily convert coordinates and embed them in google maps. That's why google released the API, and there are 100's of blogs that have "where ive been" features on a google map.

[禿 @ Jun 15th 2007 11:51PM]

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[paul34 @ Jun 16th 2007 12:20AM]

spammer、日本の友人であるか。

[Bill @ Jun 16th 2007 12:19AM]

I wonder if they mean Google-earth or if they mean Microsoft Windows running google-earth. AFAIK none of the current GPS data loggers work with linux. I'm open to corrections though.

[Marcos Kohler @ Jun 16th 2007 1:53AM]

google earth and gps works on OSX

[spam_from_engadget @ Jun 16th 2007 7:38AM]

> AFAIK none of the current GPS data loggers work with
> linux.

I have the Sony GPS-CS1, and when I plug it in to my Linux box it appears as a USB mass storage device containing a directory of NMEA format log files. So yes it absolutely does work with Linux.

[Shaun @ Jun 16th 2007 2:44AM]

is it SIRF III?

[Crayola @ Jun 16th 2007 6:15AM]

This look like a exact copy of my iBlue 747 GPS datalogger (albeit the different glossy black cover), that similarly, also synced up with Google Earth to display your logged coordinates. Semsons has been selling these since for a long time, it uses a newfangled 32 channel GPS chipset from MTK, which I think outperform SiRF III.

[jj @ Jun 16th 2007 6:52AM]

I use the "triptracker". and have no problems to sync with google earth
http://www.amaryllo.com/almooj/amaryllo-sportproducten/amaryllo-trip-tracker.html

[gateway @ Jun 16th 2007 2:37PM]

I have been using all sorts of gps loggers from pocketpc bluetooth/gps blue tooth, to the new GiSTEQ logger which I carried around my trip though europe for 2 weeks. To me honestly outside of being able to carry a gps logger in my pocket (ie avoid the sony one), its the software that really counts. While GiSTEQ has a great start I usually end up using RoboGeo .. anyhow a bit more of my info on my blog about what i use (it hasnt been updated to the GiSTEQ yet)

http://ibareitall.com/geo-photos-gps-plus-camera-geolocation-photographs/

im looking fw to review this and get a complete review of GiSTEQ soon.

[Christopher @ Jun 17th 2007 12:26AM]

I have the BT-Q880 Bluetooth GPS receiver, which works quite happily with my PDA and TT5.21. I used it to log my journey to and from the south of France last Easter, just as an experiment, and I've done some logging of in-and-around Birmingham centre (UK, not Alabama) where I live.

The results? It works great for travel at any fair velocity, but lower speed GPS logging isn't so accurate. The Q880 runs on the Sirf Star III chipset, one which is notoriously unreliable for accurately detecting position at very low speeds (walking / cycling pace in a city, for example) because it primarily relies on the velocity to predict where you are. I took a look at the GPS points it recorded whilst I was stuck in a queue of traffic approaching a busy roundabout in Brum and it had me weaving from one side of the road to the other in a way which just isn't possible in a vehicle that can't rotate its wheels 90 degrees! It looked quite ludicrous.


if the Q1000 has a similar or identical chipset inside it (which I suspect it may) individuals or companies may want to reconsider using it for configurations where having VERY accurate positioning (without wildly inaccurate linear precision) is important to their use. However, for general use, including everyday motor vehicle travel - and fast cycling journeys, if you can pedal fast for long enough! - the Q880 is more than adequate, and I'm sure the Q1000 will work just as well.

The addition of the integrated GPS logger is a nice feature - it beats having to run a GPS Splitter on your PDA and soak up even more battery and CPU power running two apps, one to show your position and one to record the waypoints. And, knowing me, I'll probably buy it (because it has shiny LEDs on it!)

[William @ Jun 17th 2007 8:45PM]

Could a marathon runner use this to track his route? Could someone log on to a Web site using Google maps in real time to see where a marathoner is currently located on a marathon course during a race?

[Aileen @ Jun 28th 2007 5:19AM]

GPS data logger is for passive tracking. To see a person/vehicle's locations in real time, you need a GPS tracker to send data via GPRS or SMS to a tracking website that has Google map or other map integrated.

[Craig @ Jun 17th 2007 9:32PM]

Wow, 32 hours I'm amazed. Now compare this with the Tracer Track that is being released by Globalstar Australia next month which has a battery life of upto 7, thats right 7 years. All details go straight back to their web site that stores all the data on Google earth.

[Aileen @ Jun 28th 2007 5:50AM]

7 years?? Are you talking about "battery life" or operation time? 32 hrs is operation time.

[Craig @ Jun 28th 2007 7:03PM]

7 years operation time. The unit is fully enclosed, no external wires or charging required. After the battery runs out you send it back and they replace the battery.

[mark @ Aug 19th 2007 10:42PM]

From the Specification they mention power consumption the 42mA , they claim they use 32hours that mean they must use 1500mA big battery , I don't think they can use 32 hours .

[Pete @ Jun 18th 2007 5:19PM]

Or you could just visit mologogo.com

[Peter @ Jun 19th 2007 3:47PM]

"32 channel: Base on MTK chipset solution, can trace signals for 32 satellites simultaneously. The fast position fix,
cold start: 36 sec, hot start: 1 sec"

[Daan-S @ Jun 30th 2007 8:25AM]

It is also great for companies that need to record the of there cars

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