Calf Trail Thoroughfare

Keeping you posted, Geotagalog 1.3 update

Geotagalog 1.3 went out today. The main new feature is that you can now geotag photos using multiple tracklog files. This should make it even easier to geotag a camera full of pictures as you import them into iPhoto, especially for users who use their GPS loggers regularly but do not download pictures every day.

If these posts seem kind of monotonous to you, you're in good company. We said in our first post that we wanted to add comments to this blog so we could get to know you better. That post was published several centuries ago, by some reckonings. We haven't forgotten. Blog comments are still a short-term goal, and we have made some progress internally on that front.

Another goal for this blog is to not just have post after post of "new product X, updated app Y, fixed some bugs in Z". While keeping customers informed is an important part of the Thoroughfare's bloggity existence, we can already put out press releases and tweets for that kind of stuff. We hope to add things we can't put in press releases, or say in 140 characters, into the mix of posts here: tips and tricks, what we're up to, product plans, inside looks, and lengthy introspective blog "blogs" about bloggity blogger blogging.

What are we up to? We're waiting for Apple to approve an update to Cheap GPS. It adds some helpful new navigation modes; we submitted it more than a week ago so we hope it will be available any day now. We've been working on two other iPhone apps to broaden our expertise on that platform, and fulfill some currently unmet needs there. We're thinking about Mercatalog, what it is and what it should become. (More on that another day.) And we're already at work on Geotagalog 2.0, adding some oft-requested major features and laying groundwork for future progress.

NMEA/TCX support in an update near you: Geotagalog 1.2

Version 1.2 of Geotagalog has gone out as an automatic update, with a few little improvents even since its beta. Adding direct support for NMEA 0183 and Garming Training Center format was fun work for us, and it's already been helping beta testers geotag their photos more quickly and more easily, or at least more quicker and easilylier.

Changes in Geotagalog 1.2:

• Reads GPS log data in NMEA 0183 (.nmea/.nme/.gps/.log/.txt) format
• Reads Garmin Training Center (.tcx) history data
• Ability to open tracklogs with Geotagalog from the Finder
• Some minor interface glitches fixed
• "Open recent" menu made available (new since beta)
• Geotagalog now provides icons for supported track files (new since beta)
• Help documentation updated for tracklog formats (new since beta)

Enjoy, keep in touch, and we'll keep working to make our products even better!

Beta test Geotagalog 1.2 to try NMEA and Training Center support

We are designing Geotagalog to have the fastest, easiest geotagging workflow available. While GPX is a great GPS data exchange format, some of the handiest loggers on the market record location data in an older format known as NMEA 0183. Garmin's handheld receivers are also quite popular, but most of the units officially supported on the Mac are sports fitness devices. It's possible to convert files from both to the GPX standard — but that adds extra steps, extra hassle and an extra file. We're adding direct support for both NMEA logs and Garmin Training Center files to Geotagalog 1.2, which is available as a public beta today.

Current changes in Geotagalog 1.2 (beta) include:

• Reads GPS log data in NMEA 0183 (.nmea/.nme/.gps/.log/.txt) format
• Reads Garmin Training Center (.tcx) history data
• Ability to open tracklogs with Geotagalog from the Finder
• Some minor interface glitches fixed

We've successfully tested with files from the AMOD AGL3080, the Sony GPS-CS3 and a few others. We'd appreciate feedback, so download Geotagalog 1.2 and let us know how it works with your tracklogs. Please include details about what device you used, and thanks in advance!