{"id":25871,"date":"2016-03-04T02:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=25871"},"modified":"2016-02-18T15:30:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T22:30:39","slug":"mytracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/mytracks\/","title":{"rendered":"MyTracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most smartphones can geo-stamp the location of each photo you take. Getting high quality cameras to do that is a challenge. GPS functionality is now built into some high-end cameras, but the problem is that because the GPS is always running, it drains the camera battery really fast, and it won\u2019t last the day. I wanted a way to tag the location of my photos when I travel overseas, but do it while I have the data turned off on my phone (because it can be insanely expensive). MyTracks is a free app that solves this. There are two versions, Android and iPhone, each from a different company. I use the iPhone version which was developed by one German guy, and works great. The Android flavor is from Google; the recent version seems to be broken. <\/p>\n<p>I turn the app on my iPhone 5 in the morning and it will log my movements all day, without a data plan on. If you set the frequency of data points to every few seconds (enough for my purpose) I can do a full 12 hours tracking from my phone. I\u2019ve done this all day, every day for weeks at a time. At the end of the day I download the GPS log to my computer. A photo program like Lightroom will sync the GPS log to the time-stamp on each photo, and produce a location place for each image. (Some popular exercise phone apps like Strava will create a GPS log of your movements, but they charge a monthly fee.) MyTracks phone app is free, although the Mac app for syncing is one-time $15. The Mac application, in fact, is a very advanced geotagging tool, ideal for photographers. As a bonus I can import the GPS log into Google Earth and have a ready-made trace of my travels.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2016\/02\/map.jpg\" alt=\"map\" width=\"680\" height=\"488\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2016\/02\/map.jpg 680w, https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2016\/02\/map-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Some of my travels in Asia<\/em><\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free GPS logger for photos and maps <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25874,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25871\/revisions\/25874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}