Hi All
I use a Garmin GPS12 with my Psion 5mx. This GPS also works well with my Nikon D200 camera and I have the necessary cables to connect the GPS12 to Psion, Nikon and my PC. The combination works great and means I can have a tracklog that I can review on Google Earth when I get home and my photos are automatically geotagged do I can review their location on Google Earth too. For long trips I download the data one day at a time to the Psion and then (via some rather convoluted manipulation) upload it to the PC via the Garmin when I get home. All this works great except for one small problem the GPS12, at 15cm long and nearly 300g is a big device and fairly clumsy when attached to the Nikon D200 via 2 cables (RS232 cable attached to the Nikon GPS adapter cable).
In order to really reduce the size of the GPS receiver for photo geotagging Nikon has now brought out the GPS-1 but there are two significant drawbacks from my point of view, namely (1) price it's nearly £200 and (2) I can't also plug it in to the Psion for analysis of data or use to review actual position on a map for that, I still need a proper handheld GPS. There are other GPS receivers that could be used similarly for much less but the single functionality remains an issue. Worse still, for any of these devices, logging stops when the camera is turned off, unlike a conventional GPS.
So, my question is does anyone know which Garmin GPS units will work with the Psion 5mx? Obviously it must have a serial (RS232) output and 5 pin at the Garmin end would be good because that's what the GPS12 uses and I already have a Garmin Psion cable. Incidentally, the Nikon requires it to be RS232 anyway. I don't want to use non-Garmin devices because I have a range of software, both Psion and PC that works with the Garmin devices. I see that the Garmin Geko is reasonably small (<10cm) but some eTrex versions have more capabilities for not much size/ weight. Does anyone know if these will work? I seem to remember one or other of these doesn't work or has a weird cable or both...
All information gladly received.
Austin
Dear Friends,
as you might already know, most latin languages (like Italian) make frequent use of vowels with accents;
Typing them on the UK (!) version of an MC218, is quite easy: it's enough to press the "Fn" and the "X" keys just before the vowel and I get it accented.
But the same procedure simply doesn't work on the US (!) version of an MC 218 !
:-(((
Apart frome the obvious (but unsatisfactory) use of the apostrophe, any (similarly easy and quick) solution ???
Thanks in advance
Ciao from Rome
:-)
Giorgio