iPhoto 09 geotagging not tranferred with Smugmug export?

epetti

I just got iPhoto 09 and have been using its new built-in Places feature to geotag my photos. I'm then uploading them to Smugmug via the iPhoto plug-in from the Smugmug site. Now the Map This option is not appearing for that album, so I'm guessing the geotagging information did not get uploaded. I used to use Geotagger to tag the pictures and Smugmug MacUploader to upload the photos and it always worked fine. Anyone know if this is an iPhoto 09 problem or the iPhoto smugmug plug-in problem? Suggestions? Help?

Thanks.

Ernie

rainforest1155

Hi Ernie,

We haven't had the chance to try the new iPhoto version yet. But it wouldn't surprize me if Apple had re-invented the geotagging and not following standards.
Could you give us a link to a photo that you geotagged in iPhoto and then uploaded to SmugMug?
How did you upload the photo from iPhoto?

Is the gallery public, has geography and 'hello smuggers' enabled?

Sebastian

epetti

rainforest1155 wrote:

Hi Ernie,

We haven't had the chance to try the new iPhoto version yet. But it wouldn't surprize me if Apple had re-invented the geotagging and not following standards.
Could you give us a link to a photo that you geotagged in iPhoto and then uploaded to SmugMug?
How did you upload the photo from iPhoto?

Is the gallery public, has geography and 'hello smuggers' enabled?

Sebastian

Here's a link to a photo:

http://epetti.smugmug.com/photos/478027702_pTw6g-L.jpg

Yes, I have geography on and the gallery is public and with 'hello smuggers' enabled. I uploaded it using the iPhoto plug-in (Smugmug Export: http://aarone.org/smugmugexport/). Should I try a different tool?

Ernie

tannebil

Neither the iPhoto plug-in nor MacDaddy work with Places. Exporting to a file and manually uploading works fine with photos that were tagged with Places in iPhoto.

rainforest1155

epetti wrote:

Here's a link to a photo:

http://epetti.smugmug.com/photos/478027702_pTw6g-L.jpg

Yes, I have geography on and the gallery is public and with 'hello smuggers' enabled. I uploaded it using the iPhoto plug-in (Smugmug Export: http://aarone.org/smugmugexport/). Should I try a different tool?

Ernie

Hi Ernie,

Hmm, the photo has some GPS information in the EXIF info, but it doesn't look complete. Here's what I see having a look at the original.

This is what it is supposed to look like.

I don't know why the longitude and latitude fields aren't included in your photo.

Could you try it the way Tannebil suggested it and export the photo manually and then upload it?

Sebastian

epetti

rainforest1155 wrote:

Hi Ernie,

Hmm, the photo has some GPS information in the EXIF info, but it doesn't look complete. Here's what I see having a look at the original.

This is what it is supposed to look like.

I don't know why the longitude and latitude fields aren't included in your photo.

Could you try it the way Tannebil suggested it and export the photo manually and then upload it?

Sebastian

I'm away from home for another week and a half but I'll try it when I get back. If that works, I can't imagine doing it for all of my pictures, though. Do MacUploader or any of the other upload options work differently from MacDaddy and the iPhoto plug-in, or would there be a chance of an update?

Ernie

epetti

rainforest1155 wrote:

Hi Ernie,

I don't know why the longitude and latitude fields aren't included in your photo.

Could you try it the way Tannebil suggested it and export the photo manually and then upload it?

Sebastian

Okay, I'm back. I tried MacDaddy (the latest version) straight from iPhoto and it did not work. I then exported out of iPhoto including the "Include Location" check box, and imported through MacDaddy from that file and it worked fine.

I've got about 3000 pictures from an Around the World trip I'm wanting to import. Exporting them all first is going to be a giant pain. Any chance of getting support added for iPhoto 09 Places somehow to one of these upload tools in the near future? I would happily beta test. :-)

Ernie

rainforest1155

epetti wrote:

Okay, I'm back. I tried MacDaddy (the latest version) straight from iPhoto and it did not work. I then exported out of iPhoto including the "Include Location" check box, and imported through MacDaddy from that file and it worked fine.

I've got about 3000 pictures from an Around the World trip I'm wanting to import. Exporting them all first is going to be a giant pain. Any chance of getting support added for iPhoto 09 Places somehow to one of these upload tools in the near future? I would happily beta test. :-)

Ernie

Hi Ernie,

Thanks for checking on that. I'm guessing that the location data is a separate field in the iPhoto library that we might not handle in MacDaddy because it may not have existed before. Could you send us a copy of your AlbumData.xml (from /Users/~/Pictures/iPhoto Library/ - you may have to right-click on 'iPhoto library' and choose 'show package contents')? Send it to our helpdesk using the email here. (don't click on it, you would have to enter the email in your email software so that you can attach the file)

Make the subject ATTN:Sebastian and include a link back to this thread.

Thanks,
Sebastian

Sass+Ry

Any updates?
Any news on the iPhoto geo-tagging export dilema? Keep us in the loop, would love to try a new rev that actually did the trick! Thanks much!
-R

rainforest1155 wrote:

Hi Ernie,

Thanks for checking on that. I'm guessing that the location data is a separate field in the iPhoto library that we might not handle in MacDaddy because it may not have existed before. Could you send us a copy of your AlbumData.xml (from /Users/~/Pictures/iPhoto Library/ - you may have to right-click on 'iPhoto library' and choose 'show package contents')? Send it to our helpdesk using the email here. (don't click on it, you would have to enter the email in your email software so that you can attach the file)

Make the subject ATTN:Sebastian and include a link back to this thread.

Thanks,
Sebastian

koreth

This still seems to not work; is someone looking at it? iPhoto's "Places" feature is much less useful if it can't play nice with Smugmug exporting.

mchk

Another request for places to be supported in MacDaddy and the iphoto exporter. As I've had to go ahead and upload all the photos without location information for now it would also be helpful if a method of retrospectively copying the location information from iPhoto to Smugmug were available.

binaryeric

Agreed. It is really frustrating how SmugMug is using $0 of their revenue to create/update companion products. So far they have been relying on "fans" to create the products themselves. Looking at just the options for Mac / iPhone users:

iPhoto plugin? - outdated. no geotagging support.
iPhone app? - useless compared to MobileMe uploading capabilities. no video upload.
OS X app - outdated

Obviously SmugMug doesn't view this is part of the SmugMug experience and so they don't dedicate any budget to it. This is really puzzling to me.

devbobo

Hi Guys,

You're actually venting at the wrong company....Apple doesn't make the geocoding information freely available.

Try exporting to flickr with a geotagged image, even a service that is fully integrated into their app doesn't support it.

We'd love to do it.

Cheers,

David

mchk

devbobo wrote:

Hi Guys,

You're actually venting at the wrong company....Apple doesn't make the geocoding information freely available.

Try exporting to flickr with a geotagged image, even a service that is fully integrated into their app doesn't support it.

We'd love to do it.

Cheers,

David

Hi David,
I'm not sure what you mean. Exporting to flikr does preserve the location (though there is a preference setting in iPhoto to hide/allow the location information for uploads to the web) just as exporting to facebook preserves the names of people in the photo - from http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/:

"Get face time on Facebook.
To publish photos to your Facebook account, just select the photos you want to share and click the Facebook button. iPhoto even converts names you added using Faces to Facebook name tags.


Flickr with a click.
Sharing on Flickr is just as easy: Click the Flickr button. When you share your photos on Flickr, the locations you added using Places appear on Flickr photo maps."

I have just tested this with flikr and it does work.

Regards

Mike

binaryeric

devbobo wrote:

Hi Guys,

You're actually venting at the wrong company....Apple doesn't make the geocoding information freely available.

Try exporting to flickr with a geotagged image, even a service that is fully integrated into their app doesn't support it.

We'd love to do it.

Cheers,

David

mchk

Looks like a workaround is to export the photos to files first (making sure you select the option to include the location information) and then use macdaddy to upload the files. Bit of a pain but it works.

Mike

DannyBres

Any news or a solution to this yet?