More Snow Leopard Geotagging With Services: Google Earth
As mentioned before, I feel geotagging is an important part of image metadata. In a previous post, I showed a simple Applescript-based Snow Leopard service to set images to a commonly used location.
With a slight modification to the Applescript in the service, you can pull the location out of Google Earth and embed your photos. I was really excited when Picasa supposedly had this feature, but it’s not mac compatible! Now, iPhoto can do the same thing.
Step 1. Set up the Automator Workflow as described in a previous post.
Step 2. Use the following Applescript
on run {input, parameters} local myLongitude local myLatitude tell application “Google Earth” set myView to GetViewInfo set myLongitude to longitude of myView set myLatitude to latitude of myView end tell
tell application “iPhoto” set mySelection to selection repeat with myImage in mySelection tell myImage set longitude of myImage to myLongitude set latitude of myImage to myLatitude reverse geocode myImage end tell end repeat end tell
return input end run