For [GPS] menu setting procedures (→38)
■When [GPS Setting] is set to [ON] or 
In Recording Mode, an icon that indicates the positioning status is displayed on the LCD monitor.
When positioning is executed successfully, your current location is stored in the camera’s memory, and the location name information appears on the screen.
Icon | Time elapsed after successful positioning |
In last 5 minutes
From 5 minutes to 1 hour ago
From 1 hour to 2 hours ago
More than 2 hours ago
Location name information | Positioning failed |
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●Even if GPS reception is good, it will take approximately 2 to 3 minutes to successfully execute positioning under the following conditions; when positioning is executed for the first time, or when positioning is executed after the camera is turned off with the [GPS Setting] set to 
and then turned on again or when [GPS Setting] is set to [OFF].
●The information of the current location stored in the camera’s memory is deleted at the following times. (The information recorded on the pictures during recording is not deleted.)
•When [GPS Setting] is set to [OFF]
•When [GPS Setting] is set to 
and then the camera’s power is turned off
•When the setup settings are reset with [Reset]
■Information recorded on pictures
●If the positioning is executed successfully, the following information is recorded on the still picture or the motion picture you recorded (except when [Rec Quality] is set to [FSH] or [SH]).
• Latitude/longitude
• Location name information (Country/region, province/state, city/borough/county, town/village, landmark)
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appears when the picture is played back.
■Location name information
●The location name information consists of location names and landmarks that are found via a search of the camera’s database based on the latitude and longitude that were acquired in positioning, and the most appropriate items are displayed (Sometimes the nearest items are not displayed.)
•If there are no location names or landmarks
•In some cases, the landmark that you are looking for may not have been registered. Location name information, such as landmarks, is current as of December 2010. (Landmark types →149)
●The location name information (location name or landmark name) may be different from the official name.
