Nikon GPS GP-1 Usage Guidelines

This page lists some guidelines to get the best results out of the GP1 unit and to help with troubleshooting if needed.

Before taking a shot with the camera, check that the green light is steady or that the GPS icon on your camera's LCD is steady.

Setting up the Nikon D700 for use with the GP'1

SETUP MENU -> GPS -> Auto Meter Off -> Disabke -> (OK)

This setting will cause the Nilon D700 Camera to stay active (when powered on), you may need to gain some experience with this setting to assess on how it affects the battery life. Alternative you can use the the parameter #C2 to change the the Meter-Camera Acitve time. Personally I have added #C2 to the Personal Shortcut Menu and adjsut the time-out value vased on the environment I am. For example at the beach or in the city and expecting too take a lot of photographs, I set the timing too a long value.

You can use the camera's preview options to confirm that the GPS geodata has indeed be recorded in the photo images.

Once the photos have been download onto your PC you can check the presence of Geolocation information by right-clicking on an image, select properties field and scroll down until you arrive at the "GPS Section", the GPS location information should look like this

Try this on a couple of images, it can happen that due to high buildings, tree's some of the GPS information has been lost.

Ensure that your image processing software like PhotoShop, Aperture, Capture NX, etc has been setup to save and maintain EXIF (or metadata) across saves.

Flickr users simple enable the flickr-option to use Geotag information from your photos and Flickr will automatically map the photos