We saw this on Bagelturf and were immediately interested. Apparently a photographer by the name of Ian Wood has been working on a nifty add-on for Aperture that allows users to embed GPS data into the metadata in Aperture.

This looks like a pretty promising add-on for Aperture users. So we will naturally continue to monitor its progress.

From Bagelturf a-la DPReview.com:

GPS2Aperture is a floating system window which can grab GPS data from either Aperture or Google Earth, let the user edit it and then send the data to either Aperture or Google Earth.

http://ianjameswood.co.uk/aperture/GPS2Aperture_beta.zip (3.2MB)

For instance if an image Version has incorrect GPS info, you can view the location in Google Earth, move around the the right location and send the edited location data back to the image Version in Aperture. Alternatively, use Google Earth to visually pick a location and add it to Versions that had no GPS data in the first place.

Note - GPS2Aperture makes changes directly to Aperture’s SQLite database as the interface gives no way to alter GPS or other EXIF data. It’s been tested on multiple computers and multiple Libraries without problems, but make sure you backup first, just in case!

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As we mentioned before, the blogger known as Bagelturf has been chronicling the process of writing an Aperture plugin on his site for some time now. Well, his plugin, named Random Wok, is now available for free download at his site.

Random Wok is a nifty tool, which allows a user to export images from Aperture and rename the files using a random filename. The filenames can be appended with both a prefix and a postfix.

The Random Wok Aperture export plugin gives the names of the images it exports random file names. Random file names are useful if you want to hide the sequence or meaning of the file names or if a random ordering is needed for a program that displays them in alphabetical order.

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Bagelturf, a blogger whose site focuses primarily on Aperture and the Canon Powershot S3, is blogging his experiences in making a simple Aperture plugin. If you are a beginner, or just looking for some nice reading on Aperture, be sure to check out his post here.

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