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Geo-tagging Images from a GPS Track Log
OfflineI downloaded your application and found it to work amazingly well when moving from from Google Earth to Aperture. So I've been watching your site for an update to the GPS2aperture program that will facilitate geo-tagging from an imported GPS tracklog but I haven't seen anything yet. I'm hoping to be able to use my Garmin GPS60csx in an Aperture-based solution and update the EXIF data. The ability to batch process image files would be great too.
In the current version I can't seem to get the program to grab the altitude/elevation data from google earth to include it in the EXIF data. Is this me or something you are working on? The other suggestion I'd make would be to include a conversion option in the altitude field for feet/meters. When I do enter altitude information manually in the field the program assumes it's in meters and then my images from 5800 feet are converted to 5800 meters (or +/- 19,000 feet ;(). Not a big deal and I realize I can change to setting in Google earth but a great convenience to us in the US.
Anyway, Thanks for working on this. I look forward to the next release.
Dennis
Hi Dennis,
As mentioned on the GPS2Aperture page, I'm working on the pro version which will include full tagging from GPX log files, country and place tagging, sophisticated export of KML files etc. This is still in an alpha stage, and will be available for beta testing once I have ironed out some problems with the interface and some timezone issues.
Altitude - Google Earth does not report the altitude via scripting. :-( I've investigated looking up altitude information via the net, but most of the free services are only accurate to the kilometre.
I'll bear in mind the need for feet/metres!
Thanks,
Ian
I too use a tracklogs extensively. My Garmin Legend HCx tracks points every second. I use GPSPhotolinker http://oregonstate.edu/~earlyj/gpsphotolinker/ to match photos to my log. These masters are updated in the process. Images are then brought to Aperture for cleanup, adding captions, © info and create a custom metadata table. I then export the metadata to a comma-deliminated text file to print for my client. (See my other post in bug fixes about not being able to grab the image date.)
I tried Maperture http://www.ubermind.com/products/maperture.php with some success in adjusting the GPS data, but upon saving it kills the caption data - they are working on that. It also saves your masters and duplicates the images. I don't require that as I sometimes work with 300-400 images in a track.
Steve
os 10.4.11, aa 1.0.60, Aperture 2.1.1
GPS2Aperture Pro is now in beta testing, let me know if you're interested in trying it out.
Ian