Geocaching is a "sport" where items are hidden in caches and then found by seekers. To be used in geocaching, the device would have to give you the ability to plug a destination into the unit and then track on that unit. From what I can tell, the device only records, and doesn't give you "trackback" or "goto" options necessary for finding geocaches. Bob, I'd like to hear more about the feature set in the software for photography applications. Does the bundled software edit the photo files exif header to insert any data? If so, what data (lat/long, POI data, etc.)? Will it work with raw files (such as Canon's CRW/CR2 files) for data injection? Thanks.
Dylan, Sorry this comment took so long I have been at CES all last week and it was very busy to say the least. Thanks for straighting me out on Geocaching. I thought it was walking, riding or biking in a city and using the track to spell out a message on an ariel view. You are correct you can not plug in a destination, it is strictly for tracking in a batch mode. For photography we will be adding the ability to add the location information to the EXIF header in the next release. As far as supporting RAW, that would be hard because of the differences by brand but we are considering supporting the Adobe Digital Negative (DNG) format. If you have the time please call me at Pharos, see our web site for contact information, I would like to get you views on the product and possible uses we have not considered.
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Geocaching is a "sport" where items are hidden in caches and then found by seekers. To be used in geocaching, the device would have to give you the ability to plug a destination into the unit and then track on that unit. From what I can tell, the device only records, and doesn't give you "trackback" or "goto" options necessary for finding geocaches. Bob, I'd like to hear more about the feature set in the software for photography applications. Does the bundled software edit the photo files exif header to insert any data? If so, what data (lat/long, POI data, etc.)? Will it work with raw files (such as Canon's CRW/CR2 files) for data injection? Thanks.
Dylan,
Sorry this comment took so long I have been at CES all last week and it was very busy to say the least. Thanks for straighting me out on Geocaching. I thought it was walking, riding or biking in a city and using the track to spell out a message on an ariel view. You are correct you can not plug in a destination, it is strictly for tracking in a batch mode. For photography we will be adding the ability to add the location information to the EXIF header in the next release. As far as supporting RAW, that would be hard because of the differences by brand but we are considering supporting the Adobe Digital Negative (DNG) format. If you have the time please call me at Pharos, see our web site for contact information, I would like to get you views on the product and possible uses we have not considered.