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!

UCalgary Flickr Group Geotags

I've been spending the morning doing mind-numbing copy-and-pastery, so I'm going to grab the camera and try to fill in some gaps. I might hit the Olympic Oval, or even as far west as the new Children's Hospital. (the brown spot on the left side of the map above is now the most advanced children's hospital in north america – opened on Wednesday)