I’ve been looking at the latest GoPro action cam as a solution to use with Mapillary.
Does anybody have any experience with them? If yes, please tell me all about GPS and clock accuracy, because after looking at other threads and asking in our national OSM group, those are my main concerns. Also, I hope uploading the sequence is not that complicated. I’m mainly looking at capturing very specific sequences to aid with mapping, and taking advantage of the ruggedness of this camera. Hope someone can help me out
Thanks for the detailed answer. I’ll have to ask my friends if someone has one and I can try it out, it’s really hard to determine if this camera will suit me.
keep in mind you’ll have to interpolate pictures from GP7 as it has no internal compass.
Otherwise, the versatility of external-mount accessories, strong suction cups, ability to shoot while charging and the (supposed) integration with the Mapillary app make it a good choice (if you can get it cheap)
This comparison does not show that the Hero 7 Silver cannot be controlled by the smart remote. I surely need that in the car. The capacity of the battery of the remote is limited. But it works while charging ?. But then you probably have to lengthen the USB cable.
I take many overlapping pictures. Are the angles not corrected by Mapillary after some time ?
I seem to remember reading somewhere that the smart controller does NOT work to start stop time-lapse. Cant remember if it was in the GoPro 7 manual or the controller manual. I will see if I can find it.
Not true. I have been doing that for one week now.
And there is even a beep on the camera when it starts and several beeps when you tell it to stop. In my settings, first it counts the pictures and after a time only a led flashes.
Today I had to reset the camera because the pairing did not work any more.
Do not forget that the Hero 7 Silver does not work at all with the smart remote.
edit : hint = set time lapse photo as the default setting
I know no one with another gopro.
But I have time and it will be raining for another week.
So if someone around Mechelen Belgium wants to lend me a gopro, contact me.
Just confirmed with GoPro - cant control multiple cameras with time lapse photos BUT you can with timelapse video supposedly. I had to ask three times to get this answer - twice they said is was possible until I pointed out their notes in the smart controller manual
Wait, seriously? So you can’t use the smart remote to synchronise a pseudo-360 rig from multiple gopros in interval mode? This makes it pretty useless, will have to sell
@4004 I would certainly like it confirmed with someone that has multiple GoPro’s running time-lapse PHOTOS, as I have had so many differing answers from GoPro. It was also my desire to run multiple gopros with a single smart controller. If I take time lapse VIDEO I will need to use scripting to upload videos rather than the desktop uploader
I am still struggling with my smartremote. Regularly (every 1 or 2 days) I must reset the connections and pair it again.
There might be something I don’t know.
The smartremote is most necessarily in a car as the Hero cannot be controlled by a Mapillary Android app.
I now will only use the smartphone in a car when I have no opportunity to mount a Gopro Hero. The difference in quality and reading reference numbers along the road is huge.
It is winter now and I would like a bit more colour in my pictures.
That is all very well to match the timestamps, but what timestamps do you use? Can you really find the exact time? A difference of one second is 13.8 metres at 50 kph.
I have been trying to correct my Samsung phone jpegs with a better track from a Garmin 78s that has an external aerial.
The Garmin track is clearly better, being always at least in the lane, whereas the lat/long from the photos strays off the road by up to 20 metres.
I was aiming for +/- 2 metres that the SBAS correction provides…
Have you compared the filename timestamp with the EXIF timestamp? That was a surprise!
The times are usually within +/-2 seconds, but sometimes there is a difference of 5 seconds. If I use the time to correct the lat/long it might be in the road, but around the corner.
i note that my Samsung does not add a GPS Capture Time
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Note that the gpx points are not the same as the image locations, they are different frequencies and are smoothed and generalised differently. The only way to get an interpolated position is to use linear referencing. I use decimal seconds since the epoch. But it depends on sub-second precision of the timing.
Hmm very interesting. I have only had a couple of crashes and it occurred when a 128GB SD card was getting close to capacity. It seems the GoPro doesn’t like it when you have more than XXX number of images on the card.
Your card looks compatible so I suspect the number of photos is more of an issue. It’s probably trying to calculate how much space you have left and gets confused due to the number of files. Just a guess though.
Often the camera is clearly doing something else and waits many seconds before giving a “beep” or a “beepbeep”.
Also often waiting does not help and I must remove the battery.
I normally format every morning, but it also happened on a day without formatting.
I have not had more than 80.000 pictures on it. I guess the SDcard can hold 100.000 pictures.
I have tried all kinds of things. But as it is clear from the Gopro forum : no one can lay a finger on it.
