I don’t have a good sense of direction. I get lost easily in my explorations of Thailand and with few people who speak English and many road signs only in Thai this can be a challenge.
Fortunately taxis are cheap and abundant, so I can always give in and take a taxi. Also Bangkok is a remarkably safe city from muggings and street crime so I’ve never felt in any danger.
BUT, even if I am lost my camera knows exactly where I am. The Nikon Coolpix P6000 has integrated GPS and most of the time it is remarkably accurate.
GPS Screen for the Nikon Coolpix P6000
But a Lat / Long pair is useless to me. No Bangkok street map I have seen includes a Lat/Long grid.
I don’t want to carry a separate GPS device and I don’t have a smart phone that has built-in GPS and a mapping application to use the results.
It’s frustrating, but I cannot imagine Nikon extending their GPS equipped cameras to be a navigation tool.
Tags: GPS
October 13, 2009 at 4:16 pm |
There are mobiles with built in GPS. Nokia have some with real GPS-chips. Some mobiles here in Europe works with A-GPS. Don’t know if you have A-GPS in Thailand which works with the help from mobile antenna transmitter towers to give the mobile the position.
I tried a small car GPS in Rome, it has a inbuilt battery for 4 hours. It was rather good. It was an Garmin 1250. I was really happy with it.
October 13, 2009 at 4:26 pm |
I don’t think we have A-GPS here.
My point was that the P6000 tantalizes me with my precise lat/long position but I cannot use it. I need another device.
I think the GPS devices today are pretty good. But a lot depends on the quality of the maps loaded into the device. I don’t think Thailand is mapped as well as Western countries. I’d like to try somebody’s system before I make the investment: it’s impossible to return stuff here.
October 31, 2009 at 8:36 am |
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