peterfrommoffat

Q: aperture gps locations not functioning correctly

I have been using Aperture for some time on iMac running 10.6.8.  One of the important features for me was the places function.  Just recently when I select this the map appears briefly and then vanishes.  Cannot find a way to fix this.  Any help very welcome.

Aperture 3, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Feb 26, 2016 8:28 AM

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  • by léonie,Helpful

    léonie léonie Feb 27, 2016 2:42 AM in response to peterfrommoffat
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    Feb 27, 2016 2:42 AM in response to peterfrommoffat
    .  Insofar as upgrading to something like El Capitan I am not willing to go down that path because I would then lose Photoshop, a very important tool for me.

    Apple simply stopped a service - no older Aperture version or iPhoto version can retrieve location data any longer from Google's servers because Apple's access key has been revoked. We Aperture users are more lucky than the iPhoto users.  iPhoto 9.4.3 or earlier now are crashing, if iphoto is trying to retrieve location data. Aperture is more robust and just is showing an empty map.

    Apple fixed this in the updates 3.5.1 and 3.6, but they require updating the system as well. There is not much hope that Apple will do more about this, since the development of Aperture and iPhoto stopped last year.  (https://photoapps.expert/tips/2014/6/27/aperture-dead-long-live-photos#.VtF5-GPf Ddm)

    All photo application development is done solely for the new Photos for Mac application. You cannot buy Aperture any longer from Apple, anreven updating is not always possible.

    Your options are limited:

    • Stop using Places in Aperture.
    • Update to Aperture 3.6
    • Get yourself a private access key to Google's servers and patch a copy of the Aperture application to use your key to make this copy working.
  • by peterfrommoffat,

    peterfrommoffat peterfrommoffat Feb 27, 2016 2:50 AM in response to léonie
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    Feb 27, 2016 2:50 AM in response to léonie

    Many thanks for your input, and I think that you have it right.  So much for the amazing internet that will solve our communication problems.  Now that the big boys are no longer playing with each other, we have to suffer.  Is this another aspect of big business getting in the way of functionality?  Where we, the small fry, really do not count for very much.

    Incidentally, how to I get a private access key to Google's servers?

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Feb 27, 2016 3:12 AM in response to peterfrommoffat
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    Feb 27, 2016 3:12 AM in response to peterfrommoffat

    Have you looked at the link in my User Tip?  Re: iPhoto 11 - Problems With Photo Locations

     

    cotton-xoutlined the procedure. You need a Google account first, then follow the links.

     

    With Aperture I did the following:

    • Copy the Aperture Application to the applications folder in my Home folder.
    • I ctrl-clicked the copy and selected "Show Package Contents".
    • In the window that opened I clicked Contents, then Resources and scrolled down in that folder and copied the file googlemap.html to the desktop.
    • Now you need a text editor - Xcode or TextWrangler, Emacs, or similar to be able to edit the code.
    • I changed the first few lines to look like this:

    Screen Shot 2016-02-27 at 12.09.14GMT.png


    Then replace the file in the copied application by the patched file.


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