Patching Aperture 3.4.5 to make Places work again

by: léonie

Last modified: Nov 14, 2018 12:01 AM

1 962 Last modified Nov 14, 2018 12:01 AM

Aperture 3.4.5 and other earlier versions are using Google Maps in the Places view. Apple did not renew the contract with Google and the Maps are no longer working in Aperture.

Update: The work-around below is now broken too. The custom API keys seem not to be working any longer since October 2018.

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User cotton-x posted a clever fix to patch the iPhoto application, so that it is using a private key to access Google's servers. The same fix is working well for Aperture 3.4.5 and probably the earlier versions of Aperture as well. See this link if you want to try it.

Re: iPhoto 11 - Problems With Photo Locations

I tested this in Aperture 3.4.5 and could display the terrain maps again, that have far more detail than the new maps in the current version 3.6 of Aperture.