Where to put the GPS?

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Where to put the GPS?

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Hi Guys

thought I'd share a little mod. My new GPS arrived yesterday and wow, it's a lot bigger than I anticipated. After trying various positions with the windscreen suction mount, I eventually ended up with the following position. Never nice to drill into body panels, but didn't have many options. Still need to sort out the cabling so if someone has ideas, please share :helpsign:
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Well done John. I was thinking of doing the exact same with my GPS but never got to it. One of my to do projects.

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That can work :bravo:
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Goeie musieksmaak wat het John man ..
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Kagiso II wrote: 02 Sep 2021 13:35 Goeie musieksmaak wat het John man ..
These Patrol guys don't miss a thing, just now they'll give feedback on your tire pressures and tell you that the Patrol is parked facing north with the wheels in the sun as well. :-)
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We also know this photo was taken in a golf estate in the Western Cape...
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Sjoe maar julle manne is oplettend :biggrin:

Christo, waar sien jy dit? :think:
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JohnBoyZA wrote: 03 Sep 2021 03:13 Christo, waar sien jy dit? :think:
Jou fotos se het geotagging data in...

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Flip, daar ek leer ek nou iets, dankie .... :thumbup:
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The geotagging thing is an issue. And one of my to-do items in the forum is to strip EXIF information (any meta-data associated with an image) when files are uploaded to pprevent the disclosure of any information - including geotags.

This is very easy to do, but not that practical. For example, various cell-phones include the orientation of the image (ie: landscape vs. Portrait) in the exif information. And stripping everything will result in incorrect orientation of photos when they are uploaded - Photos of Patrols looking like photos of Fortuners ie: lying on their sides etc.

I have apartial workaround currently. But implementation will need to wait until I get the software update done. I am almost there. Please bear with me.

John - I will manually delete the EXIF information for those images when I have a moment.
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