Geotagging raws/ importing xmp files

I'm shooting exclusively in Sony ARW raw format and look for an solution, now for over a year, to geotag my images inside Aperture - so far with no success. It seems to be an unholy alliance between Sony, not allowing to embed geotagging information into their RAW formats, and Aperture being unable to import xmp sidecar files.
I can import import a folder containing ARW files with accompanying xmp files (created with an application like Geotag and containing the geotagging information for the unaltered RAWs) into Lightroom, and have all geotagging information incorporated into the EXIF fields of the Lightroom database automatically.
But so far I found no way to get this information into Aperture, neither natively, nor with the help of Automator actions, AppleScripts or plugins.
I really hope, the next version of Aperture improves on this. Meanwhile I've downloaded the Lightroom 3 beta to check whether this could become an alternative to Aperture ...

Sorry for answering my own post, but I figured out a slight work around, and others may be interested:
I have my photos arranged in folders containing 75-125 photos each. For each photo I created an iView catalog. Each catalog was then imported into the appropriate album in Aperture using Annoture.
My struggle earlier was trying to load all my images into a single iView catalog. Annoture seemed to double count images, and choke when synchronizing large numbers of pictures (1000+).

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Sorry for answering my own post, but I figured out a slight work around, and others may be interested:
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Hi,
Thank you for the replies, sorry for the delayed repsonse, I've been in an "Edge Network" area for 2 days. I am going to check ou the Publish services and see if this will meet my needs.
You are correct that this is simply my "hell in a handbasket" back-up solution. I have a very robust local backup, that includes raid along with on and offsite versioned back-ups, so this is simply there just in case. If I lost everything but these photo's I'd still be okay, it's only 20% of so of my catalog so it's more practical to back up 400 or 500 gb though uploads. Backing up the whole catalog might be an option, but it's a lot of extra time and bandwidth. Perhaps it will become more practical in the coming months and years.
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Bo LeBeau wrote:
If I understand correctly the issue is not viewing in Bridge, but rather that ACR doesn't remember the changes.
There is a discussion in the Camera Raw forum about this issue of not always reading the changes after clicking Done in ACR.
But no solution.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4096784#4096784
Yes, ACR doesn't remember/show the changes I made.
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It is strange because I had the issue numerous times on two different windows PC's ...
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Importing .xmp sidecar file doesn't populate IPTC info??

Good evening everyone. I've been trying to import .xmp files alongside some of my old movies to save me from having to retype the IPTC info such as location, etc. I have a folder which contains the .mov file I want to import, along with the .xmp file of the exact same name. I thought this was automatic (at least from my perspective), put I guess not? The .mov file imports just fine, but Aperture doesn't seem to populate any of the metadata fields with any info from the .xmp file. I've tried this with different videos/xmp sidecar files with no luck. Am I stuck re-entering all the metadata by hand? I really don't have much info, but I have several hundred files I'm trying to re-import, so it could be a long week. In case it helps, here's the xmp sidecar file that was created when I used iView Media Pro software pre-Aperture:
Thank you!!
sample .xmp file:
<?xpacket begin="" id="W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d"?>
<x:xmpmeta xmlns:x="adobe:ns:meta/" x:xmptk="Public XMP Toolkit Core 4.0">
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<?xpacket end="w"?>

The Photoshop and/or Bridge forums would be more likely places to get answers to your questions. This forum is inhabited more by programmer types interested in implementing the XMP specification in applications we write.
I'd expect CS2 to ignore CS1 panels so I doubt that's the issue. Panels don't interfere with each other--they just offer different views of the data. In any case, move the extra panels to your desktop and see what happens.
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