Processing Tracks from the Columbus V1000 GPS

The Columbus V1000 is a really cool device for logging coordinates with which to geotag photos. Because it can store data in the GPX format, its files can be imported right into geotagging apps like Prune. The V1000 can also log temperature but unfortunately there's no place to in the GPX format for that. Instead temperature can be stored in a CSV file or Columbus' propriatory GPS format. However those formats can't be easily imported into the geotagging apps that I prefer.

Recently I found a solution. Adam Snodgrass wrote a slick little command line app that converts the Columbus GPS format to GPX for geotagging, and CSV for temperatures.

https://github.com/asnodgrass/columbus-v1000

To install it first install Git:

$ sudo apt-get install git-core

Then install the conversion program:

$ go get github.com/asnodgrass/columbus-v1000
$ go install github.com/asnodgrass/columbus-v1000

You can run the program by with the following command:

$ ~/go/bin/columbus-v1000 gpx -i abc.gps -o abc.gpx
$ ~/go/bin/columbus-v1000 csv -i abc.gps -o abc.csv