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JOBO PHOTOGPS User Manual

Geo-imaging geotagging solution
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  • Page 1: User Guide

    User Guide Version 1.3 - 1 -...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    1. Introduction....................3 2. Quick Start Guide ...................3 3. photoGPS ......................3 4. photoGPS Software Installation ................4 5. Preparing to use photoGPS ................4 6. Capturing Locations with photoGPS..............5 7. Geotagging with photoGPS ................6 8. Modifying the Location Data ................9 9. Configuring the POI Search................11 10.

  • Page 3: Introduction

    Thank you for purchasing the JOBO photoGPS geotagging solution. The photoGPS enables easy geotagging of photographs by connecting to your camera's hot shoe. This guide explains how to set the device up ready for use, and how to use the photoGPS and software to geotag your photos. For further information please visit www.JOBO.com...

  • Page 4: Photogps Software Installation

    ‘problem downloading photoGPS.msi’. This is because some proxy servers may be configured to block the download of .MSI files and these are needed for the photoGPS installer. To try to resolve this problem, you can temporarily disable use of the proxy: 1.

  • Page 5: Capturing Locations With Photogps

    6. Capturing Locations with photoGPS Your photoGPS is extremely easy to use. Simply connect it to your camera via the hot shoe and take photos as normal. Each time you take a photo, the green status LED should flash once as the device captures GPS data for the current location.

  • Page 6: Geotagging With Photogps

    Tip: One of the advantages of the photoGPS solution is that there is no need to synchronise the time of the device with the time on your camera. This is due to the fact that the photoGPS matching algorithm uses time intervals rather than absolute times. However, this approach does mean that the camera clock must stay the same for all photos in a batch to be geotagged.
  • Page 7 (time/latitude/longitude/altitude). Failed fixes are shown in red. The photoGPS software will perform several passes, retrying the captures that originally produced failed fixes, as these can sometimes be turned into successful fixes by using information from other fixes. In addition, the application performs reverse geocoding, to try to provide an address for each capture (street/town/country).
  • Page 8 3. Once all of the GPS captures have been processed and your photos have loaded, press the ‘Match Photos’ button to automatically assign the location information from the GPS pane to the photographs. In addition to the address, each matched photo will also show a list of nearby points of interest (POIs).

  • Page 9: Modifying The Location Data

    6. If you have more photos to geotag you can select another photo source folder and repeat the process. Otherwise, you can exit the photoGPS application. Before doing so you may wish to access the ‘Device Configuration’ window to erase the GPS captures from the photoGPS.
  • Page 10 The second possibility is that photoGPS has been unable to automatically determine the correct address and/or nearby POIs for one or more of your photos. In this case, you can manually edit the information.

  • Page 11: Configuring The Poi Search

    POIs in an area centred on the photo location. The radius of this area can be selected from 100m to 5km. It is also possible to change the limit for the number of POIs returned by the search function (maximum 20).

  • Page 12: Managing Gps Captures

    10. Managing GPS Captures When the device is connected to the computer, the photoGPS software displays the number of captures currently stored on the device and the percentage of the total storage used. The same information is accessible by pressing the ‘Configure Device’ button. This pops up a window which includes a graphical display of the number of captures used and an estimate for the number of captures remaining.

  • Page 13: Photo Metadata Options

    It may be that your photoGPS is becoming full but you are unable to geotag your photos and delete the GPS data captures because you do not have internet access. In this case you can use the Tools - >...

  • Page 14: Language Selection

    Troubleshooting section of this guide to try and discover the cause of the problem. If all else fails you can reset the photoGPS using the reset button. This is located behind a small hole in the bottom of the device casing, close to the hot shoe connector and red status LED. To reset the device simply insert e.g.

  • Page 15: Emergency Erase

    Typically, this interference is worst when the camera is taking a photo. For this reason, the photoGPS does not take a capture at exactly the same time as the camera shutter is pressed. Instead, there is a short delay before taking the capture, to avoid the worst of the camera interference.

  • Page 16: Metadata Description

    (e.g. location, keywords etc.). XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform). This is an open XML-based metadata format created by Adobe. Typically, it duplicates (and extends) the IPTC information. photoGPS also use XMP to store the Points of Interest (POI) data.
  • Page 17 EXIF:GPSLongitudeRef EXIF:GPSLongitude 0.1100752 EXIF:GPSAltitudeRef EXIF:GPSAltitude EXIF:GPSTimeStamp 13:49:15 EXIF:GPSDateStamp 2008:09:13 For sidecar files which only contain XMP, the same information is written to a slightly different set of tags. Latitude and longitude are written as signed values (rather than with a separate "ref" tag denoting E/W and N/S).
  • Page 18 <name> is the name of the POI, <category_type> is the name of the photoGPS POI category e.g. "Beach", "Food&Drink" etc. Note: the language used will be the current photoGPS application language as set by the user. <distance> is the distance in metres to the POI <lat>...

  • Page 19: Troubleshooting

    Answer: For the photoGPS to function, it must receive a trigger from the camera via the centre pin of the hot shoe. If this is not happening, usually the problem is that the device is not properly connected to the hot shoe.

  • Page 20: Contact/Service

    If you find that your camera refuses to trigger the photoGPS, contact JOBO with details of your camera make and model. Problem: the photoGPS software is showing a “Communications Error” message.

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