Here is a guest post on a third party software for Nikon Z9 GPS log files sent by a reader: I am a happy user of a Nikon Z9. As I used external GPS devices on my previous Nikon DSLR, the internal GPS receiver of Z9 is very welcome. Nearly all my photos are marked with GPS location. If not there was no connection to GPS satellites. GPS receiver is always on, I cannot recognize any additional battery drain by that. During the last holiday to Helgoland, I activated the GPS track log of Z9. The camera then logs the current location every minute and creates an NMEA log file. After 12h the log automatically stops. The log also continues if you switch off the camera. The problem only is what you can do with this log file. I searched on Google and found help. You can convert the Nikon log into a Google Earth KML file using GPS Babel (https://www.gpsbabel.org). GPS Babel is freeware. Select input format NMEA and output format KML and you easily get a file that can be imported into Google Earth. There are two main disadvantages of this approach. GPS babel can only convert one file at a time. The resulting KML file includes all points recorded, and Google Earth is very bad at selecting the points you want. You don’t want to manually select 300 out of 400 points. I often forgot to switch off logging in the evening. Nikon Z9 recorded random...
Published By: Nikonrumors - Thursday, 18 August, 2022