Apple working on a way of including geotagging images into Aperture?

Hi,
We have several ways of geotagging images before they are transported into a Aperture library, but I would have liked a way of tagging already existing images and have already suggested that apple could include this in the Import Menu.
Is it unlikely that Apple will have a look at ways to geocode images inside Aperture in the future?
Best regards,
Kjell Are Refsvik

You can read the AppleScript dictionary in Script Editor.
Assuming you would use IPTC tags for this, here is the relevant information:
IPTC tag n : This class represents an IPTC tag of an image version.
elements
contained by image versions.
properties
name (string, r/o) : This is the name of the IPTC tag.
value (string) : This is the value of the IPTC tag.
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