How to export ALL my GPS data with photos?

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How to export ALL my GPS data with photos?

Hi,

I hope you can help me save a lot of time.

For various reasons I have abandoned Aperture 3 in favour of Lightroom 5, and as part of the process (severl months ago) I exported all my 30,000 photos out of my aperture library along with sidecar files so that I would be able to keep my metadata. All but a few gopro phots are geotagged, however I have now discovered that for 14,000 of these images no GPS data was included in the sidecar file.

As far as I have been able to research I have two options. First to re-build the library by re-exporting the files, merge this with my current Lightroom library and hope I don't get any duplicates. Or, secondly, re-tag the 14,000 photos manually or from the GPX files I still have hanging around.

What I really would like to know is if there is a 3rd option?

What would be nice is a way to export only the GPS data and time stamps for all 30,000 and then use that as a track in Lightroom...is that possible?

Thanks for any help

Aperture 3

Posted on Mar 26, 2014 4:49 AM

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Answer 1

Mar 26, 2014 6:11 AM in response to 83years

I'm not aware of a way to do that from Aperture but it should be possible to script that ability.

Just run through all the images and have the script output the EXIF data you want. Not to difficult if you have any Applescript experience. If not I'm afraid you will need to resort to your other options.

regards

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83years Author

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Mar 26, 2014 6:33 AM in response to Frank Caggiano

Thanks Frank

That gets me about 50% of the way there.

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Answer 3

mennosr

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Apr 9, 2014 8:43 AM in response to 83years

Exporting with the sidecar files only helpes when exporting raw files. I expect you are also trying to export jpeg or tiff files. In that case make sure you selected in the preferences file under the export tab the box "include location data". Should fix your problem.

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