The new backgrounding of apps on iOS makes for very gentle use of the battery on your phone while keeping very good track of where you are. I used my phone on my last 9 hour photo outing and started w/ battery at 83% and ended with battery at 71%. But that's another device that you have to track, turn on/off, keep charged or bring spare batteries for, it also doesn't have cell or wifi as backup if you're indoors or heavily wooded area or., etc. You could get a handheld GPS unit and use that, sure. Using your phone doesn't require you to add bulk to your camera or pack, is a better GPS tracker than most GPS trackers (since it'll also use wifi and cell towers if GPS can't be locked), works decently indoors and it's something you have with you always, anyways. They either are horribly expensive (Nikon), or take forever to lock a GPS signal (all of them), or drain camera batteries (all of them) or don't work indoors (all of them) or have some other limitation.
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I've also found that the free app "Trails" in the app store is also very simple to use and does an excellent job.Ĭamera mounted GPS receivers are all plagued in one way or another. Syncing the GPX track is dead simple and your iPhone (or whatever smartphone you have) does not require a cell signal or wifi to track your location. I researched heavily into getting a GPS and ultimately landed on.
Seriously, don't discount the smartphone option.
However, if you cell phone battery dies, or you are in a "dead signal" region, as I frequently am, this could be problematic.
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