Will’s Similiblog

a screencast, illustrating geotagging in Aperture using the Maperture plugin, upload to a Gallery2 installation using Ubermind’s Gallery Export plugin for Aperture, and display using the Gallery2 Map module:

 

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A screencast illustrating the Gallery2 Map module, permitting geotagging of photos uploaded to Gallery2 albums, and integration with GoogleMaps and GoogleEarth.

 

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See my Gallery2 installation with the Map module at work, at http://gallery.similibus.org.

… 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:

A screencast (no audio) of the Gallery2 Maps module in operation, showing the GoogleMaps integration within the module -

 

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Just discovered GeoTagging - perhaps a bit late on the uptake, but at least I get to come in when the tools are good …

I’m using
Aperture (on a Mac)
Maperture plugin for Aperture

Menalto Gallery2 with the Map module installed

On the tagging end -
I’ve been playing with the Maperture plugin for Aperture (Mac), which integrates nicely with Aperture & provides a pop-up interface to edit EXIF GeoTags on individual photos or groups of photos, using a GoogleMaps interface.  Here’s a link the Maperture video tutorial.  The plugin is currently a free download in alpha from Übermind.  (Thanks D’Arcy, for your post on this!)
(I’m also using the Übermind Gallery2 export plugin for Aperture, to upload photos directly from Aperture to my Gallery2 installation - very nice; can direct individual or batch uploads to existing albums, even create new albums for uploads.  Don’t let the beta status throw you - I’ve found no glitches & it does exactly what it should do).

On the display end -
I’ve been posting my photos to a Menalto Gallery2 site (v.2.2.5) (here - http://gallery.similibus.org), and installed the Gallery2 Map module.  This will pull GeoTags from the EXIF data on uploaded photos, and also permits GeoTagging of individual photos already uploaded to the gallery via a GoogleMaps interface.  I had a bit of trouble initially with the Map module - seemed to install fine, but didn’t work - I uninstalled/reinstalled it twice & it’s been working fine since that 2nd reinstall.

The GoogleMaps display provided by the Gallery2 Maps module can be set to display and restrict its focus to only the tagged items in the currently displayed album; see the Map Module settings (GoogleMaps link on the System Settings page of Gallery2) for configuration options.

The Gallery2 Maps module also provides for export of the GeoTagged photos to GoogleEarth (screencast without sound):

 

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The examples here are from a hike Mary & I did this July (’08) in the Slovenjan Alps, on & above the Fužina Planina; an album of photos from this trip (some GeoTagged, some not yet) can be seen at http://gallery.similibus.org/v/travel/july08/slovenja/.