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(More customer reviews)So far, this is working well for me to map out my travels and especially to tag my photos' EXIF with GPS info and get them mapped. I work outdoors and wanted to document where I'm going and where I shot photos along the way as part of the documentation for the engineering work I do.
I got a little twisted up getting the software set up, and ended up on their forum looking for help, but I got the answers I needed fast and then it was a breeze. I still haven't worked out how to get it to play well with RAW photos from my Canon 40D, but I make a copy from the RAWs as a JPG Proof, and it works terrific them. I also haven't been able to work out how to get to work seamlessly with Google Earth, but it works with Google Maps like it was born for it (and I guess it was!)
One thing I'm finding is that it tends to eat batteries a lot more than I anticipated. I turn it on first thing in the morning when I set off to do my work, and leave it on all day till I get back home. That's about 10 hours, and it works the whole time - no problem there. But if I try to use that same battery the next day, I find later that it's shut off somewhere along the route, and I'm missing all the data I'd have had after that. The only solution I've found so far is to pop in a fresh AA battery each morning. That said, I'm planning to switch to rechargeable batteries for use with it, in order to keep the cost down.
UPDATE: 4 months has now gone by, and the plastic case has pretty much fallen apart, especially the little plastic nubs that hold the battery compartment door closed, and the black plastic that surrounded one screw on the bottom of the case. They broke off, so the door wouldn't shut tight anymore, and the device began to work intermittently. The yellow outer case cracked also (from sunlight through windshield maybe?).
To get it working again, I cannibalized the device, whereupon I found that one of the battery leads to the tiny motherboard had broken off at the solder connection, and was only working from pressure of what was left of the cracked yellow case pushing them together (thus the intermittent problem). After re-soldering that, I soldered the leads from a AA battery holder that holds two batteries (for longer use between battery changes) that I picked up at a local Radio Shack to the appropriate places inside the device, slipped the cracked yellow cover back into place, then Gorilla Glued the new battery holder to the outside of it. It works great, and twice as long, even if it looks funky now.
I upgraded to the "Pro" software, and it works great with my RAW files now. I also switched to rechargeable batteries, and that's worked out great to keep the cost down.
Bottom line is that the thing works very well electronically, but the case's build quality is sub-par. It can't stand the constant opening and closing of the battery compartment door, but since the battery only lasts about 10 hours of constant use, there's little choice if you're going to use this pretty much every day, like I do. It appears to be weakened by sunlight as well, which is pretty bad for an 'outdoor' piece of equipment like this.
If I could down-rate the stars at this point, I would because of the bad build of the case. And if I knew when I bought it what I know now, I'd look for a better-built device. That said, if you don't mind throwing a little McGyver action at it, it's a nice piece of gear.
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