tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22282377297583888542011-12-14T13:20:03.794ZUsing the Sony GPS-CS1 for geotagging photos on the Mac.Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11382645174790478119noreply@blogger.comBlogger161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2228237729758388854.post-49091113063394943852008-05-29T06:46:00.003Z2008-05-29T06:53:36.146Z

Apple have confirmed that the latest Mac OS X Leopard release, 10.5.3, fixes the GPS-CS1 support issue. If you raised a bug with Apple reporting this issue, you should have an official response.Readers of this site have also confirmed that both Intel and PPC versions of 10.5.3 now support the Sony GPS-CS1.So... if you are a PPC user, upgrade to 10.5.3. If you have an Intel Mac, Leopard owners

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You might have already seen this in the comments to the last post, but I'm creating a new post to make it more visible.  There is a workaround, which adds GPS-CS1 support to Intel Macs running Leopard (note that the GPS-CS1 mounts on Intel Macs running 10.4.9 and 10.4.10, but not 10.4.11 or 10.5.0-10.5.2)This solution should also work for Intel Macs running 10.4.11, but this is yet to be tested.H

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I just tried 10.4.11 on my Power PC Mac, and it doesn't fix the GPS-CS1 support issue.Has anyone tried this software update on an Intel machine? Can you still use the GPS-CS1 (assuming you were running Tiger 10.4.9 or 10.4.10)?Also, I gather there is a Leopard update (10.5.1) out there. No Leopard user - Intel or Power PC - was able to use the GPS-CS1 so has this update changed matters?<!--

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Sorry for the lack of updates recently, there just hasn't been any progress in making the GPS-CS1 work with PPC Macs.However, Leopard is out tomorrow and the latest version of Tiger, 10.4.11, is due any day now.I will try the GPS-CS1 on 10.4.11 as soon as it is available, if someone else could try it with Leopard and post the results I'm sure many PPC owners will be grateful. And not just PPC

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Just a quick note to say that version 1.0 of HoudahGeo is now available for download - and three cheers to them for listening to comments from this blog about the beta version. More on this at a later date but the big news for GPS-CS1 owners is:HoudahGeo now loads unconverted GPS-CS1 files - or any other NMEA files for that matter.HoudahGeo also loads multiple GPS files, important for us as the

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Apple have released the source code for Mac OS X 10.4.9. Now the source code for Intel and PPC versions of IOUSBMassStorageClass are the same for 10.4.8, so presumably the Intel source code for IOUSBMassStorageClass version 1.4.7 (part of 10.4.9) can be compiled on a Power PC Mac. If so it might be possible to install the executable as a custom kext (having backed up the original, obviously)

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Now that the GPS-CS1 works on some (Intel) Macs, I'm starting to get some questions asking how to use the log files to tag/geocode photos.I'll assume that most people know the general principle - that the idea is to match the date and time a photo was taken with the date and time that a reading was made with the GPS device. Sony supply Windows-only software for this, but there are a few Mac

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OK here's the latest situation with GPS-CS1 support on Macs, following the release of Mac OS X 10.4.9.If you have an Intel Mac, then the 10.4.9 update will add GPS-CS1 support.If you have a PPC Mac (G4, G5 etc) then it won't.It appears that the USB kernel extensions have been updated in the Intel version of Mac OS X, ever since a slightly newer version of Mac OS X 10.4.8 came out with Core 2 Duo

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Update 14th MarchIt appears that 10.4.9 fixes GPS-CS1 support for Intel Macs, but not PPC ones. Please check the comments to see how people are getting on with different Macs.Well Mac OS 10.4.9 has now been released. I've downloaded the software update, installed and rebooted. Plugged in my GPS-CS1 and... nothing.If anyone out there has had a different experience to me, please let me know.

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If you haven't visited this blog before, it has been set up to share information on Mac support for the Sony GPS-CS1 photo geotagging device.Although Sony do not advertise it as being Mac compatible, it should mount as a removable disk on a Mac. However unless you have a Core 2 Duo Macbook, then your version of Mac OS X 10.4.8 has a bug that stops the GPS-CS1 from mounting.A workaround (other

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Apologies for the lack of updates recently.I was hoping that Mac OS X 10.4.9 would have been released by now, and we could see if it fixed Mac support the GPS-CS1. It's still in beta (developer seeding) though there are signs that a public release could be imminent.Yet another new build has been sent out to developers, and there are two hints that it's nearly ready. First, there have been very

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Does anyone out there have Mac OS X version 10.4.9 yet?To date, it's only been released to developers. If that's you and you have a GPS-CS1, could you please let us know if it mounts as a removable drive? We're hoping that when it is released to the general public, that it will fix our problem with lack of Mac support for this device.Everyone else, let us know when you get 10.4.9 as a software

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Update 29th DecemberI know some Mac owners have been considering buying a GPS-CS1, but have been put off because no-one has been able to get it to work on a Mac yet.Well on new Core 2 Duo Macbooks, it seems it does work. For all other Mac owners, you might want to wait a few weeks. It's possible that your Mac may start to recognise the GPS-CS1 very soon.See the details in the original post

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I can personally confirm that the GPS-CS1 mounts as a removable drive on Linux (Ubuntu in my test) without any additional drivers or modifications. This is significant for two reasons:1 - Mac OS is now the only major OS that doesn't support this device2 - Mac OS X is based on Unix, so shouldn't be that different from Linux - so this shouldn't be an insurmountable problem.Here's the data I

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For new visitors to this site - this blog has been set up to campaign for and share information about the ability to use the Sony GPS-CS1 on the Mac. This photo geotagging device mounts as a removable drive on a Windows PC but isn't recognised on the Mac. Once you are able to extract the files from it and copy to your Mac, there are various options available instead of Sony's PC-only software,

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Technorati ProfileI recently bought a Sony GPS-CS1 - and if you're reading this, I guess you have too (or are thinking about it). It's a clever little piece of kit, that records a GPS location every 15 seconds, that you can use to geotag any photos you've taken. I like to travel, and I like to take my camera with me, so it's ideal.Except that I'm also a Mac owner, and the GPS-CS1 doesn't work on

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