Post-voyage GPS log

As well as recording daily points on our dynamic map, during our workshops we record GPS data wherever possible, using GPS dataloggers. These provide us at the end of the trip with one or more GPX files, which can be loaded into "geo-tagging" software to attach locations to photos based on their timestamp, or just for loading up into Google Earth to look at the "pretty map" (as per this screen-grab).

On this most-recent Arctic voyage we recorded a continuous trail of where our ship was. Some of us also carried personal GPS loggers to record our locations when away from the ship, and one person had a GPS unit attached directly to his Nikon DSLR. When geo-tagging my own photos I use whatever data's available from my personal logger, then fill in the blanks from the ship data. If I didn't take a personal logger (or it wasn't turned on!) and I couldn't get data from someone else in my Zodiac, at least I have the ship data to fall back to.

The ship GPX data is accessible to registered workshop participants via this site's forums. The data from this last trip shows we covered 2,335 km in our travels, and got as far north as 80˚ 50.91'N!