GPS2Aperture Beta Testing

Information and feedback on the current GPS2Aperture beta.

GPS2Aperture Pro 1.0.23 beta 5 download link and instructions

The fifth beta is now available:

http://www.aperture-assistant.com/files/downloads/gps2aperture_1.0.23_be... (5.4MB)

Unless major problems are reported, this will become the first public beta.

Main changes from version 1.0.20:

  • Tagging from GPS log files now works for fifteen days and then requires a registration key. All other features remain active.

  • GPX files from devices that save sub-second timestamps are now supported.
  • GPX files that do not contain trackpoints no longer cause GPS2Aperture to go into an endless loop when adding them to the trackpool.

How to do batch annotating?

I can change one photo at a time. I'm using GPS tracklogs.

How do I do hundreds of photos at once? I see references to doing this in the forum, but I'm obviously missing something in the interface.

Thanks

Problem with trk breaks

Trying app for the first time. Loaded trackpools, but they seem incomplete. Ah, I now see the problem. The app stops at the and misses the next 13000 plus points. This is a Garmin 60CSx tracklog.

Complete 2008-11-14T17.txt

1226682490 36.554494 -105.597393 2309.667
1226682617 36.554494 -105.597393 2313.531
1226682639 36.554494 -105.597393 2310.502
1226682640 36.554494 -105.597393 2313.303
1226682643 36.554494 -105.597393 2310.751
1226682701 36.554494 -105.597393 2312.088
1226682805 36.554494 -105.597393 2308.938

First screencast available

http://www.aperture-assistant.com/docs/gps-scree...

I've uploaded a screencast about the Trackpool, and calibrating for your camera clock. More to come in the following weeks.

Ian

Master file is not available!

For some of my photos, I have used the camera setting to create a jpg and a raw. When I try to tag one of these raw photo's with GPS2Aperture vers. 1.0.23 or with the Lite version 1.0.16, I get the message "Master file is not available!". I am able to right-click the image select 'Show in Finder' and see both the raw and the jpg files in the finder, so the files are not managed by Aperture.

I looked through other posts and could not find any references to this message.

Thanks,
BlairK

Geonames server is down

If you try to get the positions of images and get a warning dialog titled 'sts_XML_ Parsing Error', this probably means that the geonames.org server is not offering it's reverse-geocoding service at the moment. :-(

You'll have to uncheck 'Fetch geographic data' and fill in local place names manually in Aperture.

Ian

Strange dialog in 1.0.23 beta

Hi,

I just launched the latest beta... 1.0.23... and got a strange dialog that pop'd up at launch. It was just a string of numbers, i messed and missed the screen shot but it was something like '1210199332' with just an OK button. I quite and launched the app again and it did not come up.

-graham



Logger only works on some images

Hi Ian,

just tested Version 1.0.20 and tried to geotag four images with the logger. Input was a Garmin GPSmap 60CSx Active Log.

From the four images only one received a position (which was correct), the others just stayed blank although they are covered by the Active Log. I had no problem geotagging all these images with HoudahGeo.

I then updated the (managed) master with the new EXIF data. Worked fine, gps data appears in Aperture (2.1.1). When I export a version of the geotagged master, the resulting (JGP) file does not contain the position information.

Photokina delay, IPTC fix to come...

As some of you may have read from the 1.0.20 release email, I was away at Photokina all last week and couldn't keep up to date with the forum.

I'm just about caught up on emails etc, and coding will now start on a new beta with some workarounds for Aperture losing IPTC metadata for tagged images, and improved performance when tagging multiple images.

Ian

Backup folder names?

Why are the backup folders named in such an obtuse way? i.e. 7mK9TZVPQla4EG0oSnxCJw
It means to find a backup you have to basically look thru each one until you find the file you are looking for. Could they be named something more informational? or just put the images all in a flat hierarchy so that you can just look for the file name.

Also in the backup instructions i think it said something about the backups being named _original or something (i can't find how to get the instructions up again). It doesn't look like the backups file names are changed to me.

-graham

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