14 August 2008

Manual geotagging in Aperture

Maperture is a plug-in for Aperture from Übermind that allows you to add latitude and longitude metadata manually to Aperture photos from within the application itself. Works with Nikon NEF RAW images and jpegs, but not TIFFs. It will preserve any existing geotags in the images. Best of all is the price: it's free!

5 comments:

Übermind said...
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Übermind said...

Hey all,

I just wanted to chime in on your discussion about geotagging your images...

We are testing Maperture Pro BETA currently which allows you to visually geotag your images, import tracklog data from a GPS device, reverse geocode location information, save location bookmarks, copy & paste location information as well as several others. If you are interested in testing it out and providing feedback...

Go to www.ubermind.com/beta, take it for a spin, and tell us what you think.

Thanks!

Übermind said...
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Übermind said...

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.

Thanks!

Übermind said...

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!

And there is now a workaround to this issue in Aperture so that all geotagged information from Maperture Pro will be exported with your images. It seems though you must be running the most up to date version of Aperture for this to work properly, currently 2.1.4. After geotagging via Maperture Pro, quit Aperture and force a rebuild of the library by holding Command + Option when re-launching. Aperture then seems to sync all the newly added GPS information to it's master metadata library, solving the problem. You can now edit your images and export with all the EXIF & IPTC metadata intact. You would need to repeat this step after adding new geotags which you would like to export.

Thanks!

http://www.ubermind.com/products/maperturepro.php

http://www.ubermind.com/products/maperturepro-faq.php