Aperture 3 Geotagging - Very Disappointing Lack Of Functionality

I'm very disappointed that the geotagging feature in Aperture 3 still doesn't allow me to specify a gpx file and then automatically tag photos as they are imported. I know that there are plug-ins available for geotagging, but they are overly-functional (all I want is to tag photos on import automatically from a gpx file that I specify) and they convolute the workflow, wasting time and effort to achieve something very basic that should be built-in to Aperture.
Only enabling this ability in a piece of professional image processing software for the iPhone and the very few point-and-shoot compacts with gps built-in is laughable (and yes, I am an iPhone owner)- it should be enabled for gpx files and all image files types (including RAW) in Aperture. Most pro and semi-pro photographers use dSLRs, not iPhones, to take their photos!!
It would have been more appropriate to enable "iPhone only" geotagging in iPhoto, a product more suited to the quality of images produced by the iPhone's camera.

I'd have to agree that there is something odd going on. I am currently a Lightroom 2 user, but I am checking out Aperture 3 as there are some features here that interest me. One of them was geotagging.
In Lightroom, when I geotagged a couple dozen photos I took today, the GPS coordinates for the photos end up right where I expect them. When I did it in Aperture, dropping the first photo on the track so that it indicates 0hrs and 0 minutes, the pins for the photos are not in the right place. It looks like they are up to 10 minutes off, and as such are noticeably out of place.
I cannot explain why using the same photos and the same track log produce accurate results in Lightroom 2, but inaccurate results in Aperture 3. I am using Jeffry Friedl's plug-in for Lightroom. What I would like to have is the built in map that Aperature 3 provides.

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