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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