I’m the developer of GeoHarvest. First of all I hope you appreciate I’m an amateur programmer while GeoHarvest is a personal project that I just shared for those interested without guarantees. I also found that making a program work on ones own system is a lot different from getting it to work on a multitude of systems around the globe. Still a good number of people are using the prog to satisfaction and basically it should work with an Oregon.

Apparently other Garmin units give diffficulties, although after having the prog tested by some local Garmin enthusiasts I was under the impression most types would work with GeoHarvest. As I do not have other units than the Oregon myself it’s impossible for me to test these, so maybe GeoHarvest is best considered an Oregon-only solution.

Anyway, ‘error48′ is an error that is not linked to a specific fault but used as a catch for malfunctions that, while writing the program, seemed almost impossible to happen, like faults inside the Windows architecture. Obviously I overlooked some combination of events possibly occuring in my code. Therefore it is hard for me to pinpoint the cause exactly.

However, here’s my ‘educated’ guess: On the ‘Track Download’ tab you have possibly *not* checked the ‘Convert with GPSBabel from:’ checkbox, while ‘GeoHarvest Input Type:’ is erroneously set to ‘GPSBabel GPX XML’. Also make sure the ‘Database1′ directory does exist in the program folder.

To solve the problem simply set the ‘GeoHarvest Input Type:’ drop down list to ‘Garmin GPX (Current GPX)’.

A cause for the program not working with your files (but not for error48) could be that you have a new camera and try to add position data to a RAW file. In that case please download the latest version of Exiftool from the website of Phil Harvey and put it in the GeoHarvest program directory.

If that does not work and you’re willing to invest some time to solve the problem please contact me at geoharvest at fotoflip dot nl (please edit the address to proper email syntax). I’ll come back to you then but please be patient as I’m rather busy at the moment.

UPDATE coming soon:
I’m planning to publish a small update to the program (around the end of august 2009). This will repair some minor problems, edit or remove the GPSBabel functionality (for as of late I don’t get it to work myself any more) and remove the kill date for the CloudMade.com function. I also hope to improve the latter while CloudMade may have improved their service a bit in the past few month. This function adds the country, city and street to your exif data. I’ll also include a number of exif fields that will put personal information in the files.

Philip

http://www.earlyinnovations.com/photolinker/