<a title="A walk down the Vasari corridor" href="http://davidhewson.com/2011/01/18/a-walk-down-the-vasari-corridor/">I promised to let you know </a>how my new super GPS-equipped Casio EX-H20G fared when I walked through the Vasari Corridor, going through the Uffizi gallery then down the Medici's private internal passage, along the Arno river, across the top of the Ponte Vecchio, then emerging in the Boboli Gardens of the Pitti Palace on the other side.

By rights a GPS should be clueless about this since all of the journey is indoors and frankly I didn't know which way I was pointing most of the time. Since cameras were banned except for pointing out the occasional window I couldn’t take photos either.<!--more-->

Here's the actual route of the corridor which is roughly one kilometre in length (I'm a bit hazy about the bit in the Boboli Gardens so don't quote me on that by the way).

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And here's what the camera made of it...

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Not bad. It does dump me in the Arno at some stage and it didn't get a large section of the corridor running along the river and across the bridge. But it picked up the outdoor locations very quickly and accurately.

When it loses the satellite signal the camera tries to guess your position by monitoring your movements using an internal sensor. The corridor involves a lot of up and down and roundabout walking. I can't complain it fooled the Casio a bit. It was rather like a touch of potholing in some ways.

Still an impressive camera when it comes to the GPS though. But I have a few things to learn about picture quality. Some of the features offering 'super' and 'premium' quality do result in photos that seem overprocessed to me. I think I'll turn them off for the duration of the trip.

Here's the corridor as it crosses the Ponte Vecchio.

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