I just bought a Garmin Vista Hcx to use for geotagging. I have been using a 60c but had become frustrated at how finicky its reception was. It seemed that unless I had line of sight to the open sky, it would lose its signal, so out of a batch of say 10 photos, 4 or 5 couldn't be geotagged because at the time they were taken, the receiver wasn't getting a signal. I heard that the newer Garmins with the 'x' designation have much more sensitive receivers so decided it was time to upgrade. I took the Vista Hcx to Westwood last night and walked around a bit and sure enough, even though the receiver stayed in a zipped jacket pocket the whole evening, it never lost its signal, and every photo I took could be tagged. The results are here:
http://canghuixu.smugmug.com/gallery/4272921Here is the map view:
http://maps.smugmug.com/?feedType=geoAlbum&Data=4272921The only oddity was that in a few cases, my location was wildly off. In one case the tag indicates the photo was taken inside a building at the corner of Wilshire and Westwood, when in fact I was on the sidewalk on Westwood about a block south of Wilshire. I think one of the shots I took along Gayley was also tagged as being taken inside one of the buildings I photographed. I guess keeping the receiver in my pocket does lead to some loss of precision.
This was one of my favorite shots of the evening:
And another of my favorites, a shot of the beautiful In-n-Out on Gayley,
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