Can Aperture save reusable location presets for geotagging photos?
Asked 2/20/2011
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I want to speed up geotagging in Aperture for photos taken in the same places repeatedly, such as home, the park, or my parents’ house. My cameras do not have built-in GPS, and I import RAW files into Aperture.
I looked in Aperture’s metadata preset tools, but I can’t find any way to include location data in a preset. Even presets created from photos that already have location information do not seem to retain it.
Can Aperture store reusable locations so I can quickly assign them to selected photos later, or is location data not supported in metadata presets?
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Photography Stack Exchange contributor
15y ago
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They cleverly hid this functionality, to do what you want:
- Select Metadata menu -> Manage My Places
- Add your new 'My Place'
- Select the photos you want to geotag
- Select Metadata menu -> Assign location
- Pick from your remembered locations or use a new one
Voila, and in the future you can just use steps 3-5 to assign that location to any further photos.
Originally by user1819. Source · Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0
user1819
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Aperture does not appear to include location data in normal metadata presets. Instead, use its saved places feature:
- In Aperture, go to Metadata → Manage My Places.
- Add your commonly used locations there.
- Select the photos you want to tag.
- Go to Metadata → Assign Location.
- Choose one of your saved places.
That gives you a reusable location workflow, even if it is not part of the preset system.
If you also record GPS tracks while shooting, Aperture can match photos to a trail by timestamp, which is useful for walks or travel. For fixed, frequently used spots, My Places is the closest built-in solution mentioned here.
So: not via metadata presets, but yes via saved locations in Aperture.
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