geotag export glitch in Aperture
Posted by: admin in Uncategorized, tags: aperture, gallery2, Gallery2 map module, geotagging… see fix, in the 1st comment to this post …
I’ve run across a critical glitch in the Aperture/geotagging workflow, which appears to be an Aperture bug - (see e.g. http://aperture-assistant.com/post/151#comments as well - I’ve been searching the web for any possible remedies for this, and find none at present) -
After geotagging in Aperture, the exported image - either with export version to a directory in preparation for upload, or with export via Ubermind’s Gallery Export for Aperture, directly to my Gallery2 installation - is exported without the geotag (latitude, longitude) metadata. The getag metadata is there in the version within Aperture; it can be viewed in the metadata panel, and it works with the right-click menu show on map… link; but it apparently is stripped during export.
GPS metadata is included with the image if I export the Master, rather than the Version from Aperture.
The images in my Gallery2 installation which display geotag metadata, are ones which I tagged using the Gallery2 Map module (see below), after upload; those I exported from Aperture sadly had their geotags stripped on export.
Screenshots of the Gallery2 Map module geotagging interface:
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… and a fix! It’s simple! …
Store your masters outside of the Aperture Library.
I just used the “Relocate Masters for Project” menu item from the drop-down menu on the project directory in the Aperture “All Projects” sidebar pane, to relocate my masters from the Aperture Library to an external directory.
All the previously geotagged images now export as version from Aperture with geotagging intact, and new geotags created using the Maperture plugin now export intact with the exported image versions.
Glad you found that fix. I noticed the problem myself today and I’m relieved that my geotagging isn’t going to go to waste now! I too, use gallery.
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