Aug
13
(2008)
geotagging in Aperture with Maperture
Filed under: general. Tags: aperture, Flickr, geolocation, geotagging, metadata, photography.
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!
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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.
[...] video tutorial. The plugin is currently a free download in alpha from Übermind. (Thanks D’Arcy, for your post on this!) (I’m also using the Übermind Gallery2 export plugin for Aperture, to upload photos [...]
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”.