Aperture

GPS2Aperture Lite version 1.0.15 is now available, and isn't a beta! There's been a few tweaks and several bugfixes.

http://aperture-assistant.com/gps2aperture

Work will now continue on the 'pro' version which will do geotagging from GPS log files. If you'd be interested in beta testing the pro version, please drop me an email.

Ian

GPS2Aperture has been updated to work properly with Aperture 2, allowing you to view and geotag your images via Google Earth.

It's free, and the beta is available at http://aperture-assistant.com/gps2aperture

Future plans include full geotagging from GPS log files.

Ian

I've been pretty quiet on the blog recently, due to a combination of being away for much of February (I went to Australia for a wedding, and met up with Aaron Spence who turned out to live round the corner), re-doing my website (not finished yet) and a bunch of application programming.

Pano2Movie has been getting a bit of attention, with a new beta with bezier curve paths hopefully coming out in the next two weeks.

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:

Following on from the little AppleScript I wrote that takes GPS info from Aperture and feeds it to either Google Earth or Google Maps, I've written a helper utility that that will go both ways.

GPS2Aperture is a floating system window which can grab GPS data from either Aperture or Google Earth, let the user edit it and then send the data to either Aperture or Google Earth.

(Old link removed)

I use Apple's Aperture software quite a lot, but haven't really got into GPS stuff (yet). Anyway, someone on the Aperture support forum asked if there was a way to select an image containing GPS data, and use it to go to that location on a Google Maps web-page.

Well, now there is. :-)

GPS to Google Maps URL script

This is a little AppleScript that will grab the latitude and longitude from the EXIF data, make a GM-style URL and open it in a new Safari window.

Have fun,

Ian