geotagging in Aperture with Maperture
I’ve been geotagging many of my photos on Flickr, but it’s always bugged me that the geolocation metadata was not available in my Aperture library – geotagging only happened after posting photographs to Flickr, and that metadata was essentially lost from my library.
That just changed. Now I’m using the awesome new Aperture geotagging plugin Maperture, adding latitude and longitude data directly within Aperture before uploading to Flickr etc… That means I get to keep my metadata.
Here’s what the Maperture metadata entering screen looks like:
geotagging in Aperture with Maperture
and once posted to Flickr, the geotagging data is still available:
displaying the geotagged data from Flickr after posting
And, thankfully, the coordinates seem to match up pretty closely. I’d tried using Google Earth via the Flickr Export plugin for Aperture to add the geotag data before, and there was a mismatch when viewed on Flickr. Maperture seems to work great so far!
Thanks D’Arcy! I downloaded & installed this immediately after reading your post – a wonderful application. I’ve just set up geotagging in my Gallery2 installation, using the Gallery2 Map module – see
http://wt.similibus.org/2008/08/15/geotagging/
& so far it’s working quite nicely. Nice GoogleEarth integration from the Gallery2 Map module – see the screencast in my post.
Until now I used Geotagger (http://craig.stanton.net.nz/software/Geotagger.html) in combination with Google Earth which works well. The only drawback is that you have to geotag the photos outside of Aperture through Finder. That is a bit cumbersome. Thus, I will gibe Maperture a try. Thanx for the post.
Just an addition that might be important: If you had entered credit and copyright notice information before geotagging images with Maperture, you will loose that information and have to re-enter it. Furthermore, Maperture adds the keyword “Geotagged”.
@anitsirk I just geotagged a bunch of photos using the latest version of Maperture, and my credit/copyright metadata was not affected. I’m guessing the problem you mentioned has been fixed. If would be nice if the keyword tagging was optional.
The credit/copyright metadata is affected if your RAW files are referenced in Aperture. I can confirm this!
JO
Hey all,
I just wanted to chime in on your discussion…
About Embedding GPS metadata…
Unfortunately this is a bug in the way Aperture deals with plugins exporting versions. It seems certain metadata fields will not export unless you export a new master image. We have contacted Apple about this issue and hopefully will be included in a future update. If you export a new Master image, the GPS metadata will be correctly embedded for upload. But it’s a two step process and we would like it to be more streamlined. I still need to do some further testing with the new updates to see if there is any progress here. And will keep you updated.
About working with referenced files in Aperture with Maperture…
After some testing, it does seem like there is an issue when working with files not stored in the Aperture Library. When geotagging images Maperture will erase all IPTC data in these referenced files. There are limitations in the API which hinder the abilities of an edit plug-in within the host application. So you will need to have your images stored in a managed Aperture library to use the plug-in to it’s fullest at this point.
And we are also testing Maperture Pro BETA currently which has several enhancements and fixes and can be found below.
http://www.ubermind.com/beta
Thanks!
Maperture Pro BETA 1.1.8 is now available for download! Go to http://www.ubermind.com/beta, take it for a spin, and tell us what you think.
We have just released version 1.2.6 and has seen many improvements with stability, image formats, geo-data and multi-thread issues. Give it a spin and let us know what you think over at support@ubermind.com. We’d love to hear how you think we could improve it!
Thanks!
http://www.ubermind.com/products/maperturepro.php
http://www.ubermind.com/products/maperturepro-faq.php