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GPS2Aperture - please update to newest beta!

Submitted by Ian Wood on Wed, 2007-08-29 10:33.

It turns out that beta 1 saved the information in a way that wasn't very secure - updating the database by itself doesn't survive rebuilding the database, restoring from a Vault or exporting as a Project.... please update to beta 3 as soon as possible!
You should also go back to images that you edited with beta 1 and update them again using beta 3. :(

http://ianjameswood.co.uk/aperture/gps2aperture_beta_3.zip

In addition to storing the information in the XML files as well as in the database, beta 3 includes a few new functions:

GPS2Aperture is only visible when Aperture or Google Earth is the current application.
'Constant Update' feature will keep moving Google Earth to the location of the currently selected Aperture Version.

Ian

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muliple images

Submitted by marek on Sat, 2007-09-08 08:34.

Hello Ian,
edit: at first I have to thank you for this nice tool tool. And now my question:
is it possible to edit mulitple images in one of the next versions? Sometimes I got more than 10 pics taken on one location and it would be faster to select them all and give them all the same gps data.

Marek

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Re: GPS2Aperture - please update to newest beta!

Submitted by Tom Dibble on Sat, 2008-02-09 15:57.

Is this being further developed? Do you need any assistance developing it?

I'd like to be able to modify multiple images at once by matching a GPS track log with the timestamps of the photos. It definitely seems a short jump from what you have here, but would be a pretty big leap from scratch. It seems there are no good options for Aperture users out there (I'm not keen on having to process a bunch of JPEGs outside Aperture to do this; my workflow is RAW, and I don't touch the file system directly at all).

Let me know if I can help out at all. I'm quite familiar with both AppleScript and Cocoa/ObjC[++].

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Re: GPS2Aperture - please update to newest beta!

Submitted by vincen on Sun, 2008-02-10 10:34.

I'd be also very interested to test and help for that plugin :)

Thanks

Vincèn

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Re: GPS2Aperture - please update to newest beta!

Submitted by Ian Wood on Sun, 2008-02-10 11:22.

Hi all,

I've been tinkering a bit with GPS2Aperture and will be adding support for tagging multiple images at a time. What I won't be doing any time soon is adding tagging from GPX files as it's not quite as straightforward as it first appears due to all the possible combinations of timezone and incorrect clocks on the camera.

Then there's the EXIF problem - when Aperture exports a Version it uses the EXIF data in the original Master file, regardless of any changes made in either the database or in the XML sidecar files deep down inside the Library. This could be worked around by using EXIFTools to embed GPS data in the Master files, but I fear that would lead to problems down the line as Aperture stores a whole series of information such as exact file sizes and checksums about each file.

Tom - thanks for the offer of help, but it's written using Runtime Revolution (www.runrev.com) rather than XCode, and involves proprietary library code for something else I'm developing. On that subject, any of you interested in testing an automation helper for Aperture should contact me off-list. ;-)

Ian Wood
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