IPTC Location Fields

I've tagged the location of many of my photos with the Assign Location... command in Aperture. However, this metadata seems to only be accessible through Aperture. Are there any Applescripts around to get the Aperture Location Data assigned to the IPTC Core Fields (City, State/Province, Country)?

Gone . From the page that shows up when I click "download" from the Plug-ins page:
All good things must come to an end.
The time has come to retire the Über Plug-ins for Aperture and iPhoto. As of October 4th, 2011, they aren't available for download.

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IPTC location fields - best practices?

Lightroom offers various location-related data - Scene, Location, City, State/Province, Country, ISO Country Code.
Country and State/Province are usually straightforward. In a major city, City is also obvious, and for Location I typically enter a street name or street/cross-street.
Elsewhere, things aren't so obvious. For example, I shot some pictures recently in a village with about 200 inhabitants: is that a city, or a location? Other pictures were taken between villages in a large river valley. Should I enter the name of the valley ("Wakhan Valley") as 'City'? What about shots taken on a major road? Would the name of the road ("Pamir Highway") count for City or Location?
And what to enter for 'Scene'? And should ISO Country Code use 2-letter, 3-letter or numeric values?
Does anyone have any advice to offer on these points, or pointers to industry guidelines?
Thank you,
Angus

For industry guidelines, go directly to the IPTC organization. At the following link, download the IPTC Core PS Panel file (along the right side of the page), unzip the file, and look at the pdf for a description of how the various fields are generally used.
http://www.iptc.org/IPTC4XMP/
Of course, you can use them any way you wish. What you've described is most commom. Since Countries, States, and Cities are all political subdivisions (arbitrary man-made boundaries), I generally limit their use to just that. The village you described fits this criteria, so in my collection, I would use the City field. I broadly view the City field as being the smallest political subdivision that we use to govern ourselves (just my definition).
The Location field, on the other hand, could be most anything defined politically, geographically, or otherwise. The IPTC standard suggests using only the Location field, leaving City blank, should you be on a mountain top in the middle of nowhere. Personally, I usually fill in the closest City to the location I'm at, but that might not be what the New York Times or other media outlets would do. I recently took some shots on board a flight at over the Gulf of Mexico - had to really scratch my head on how I wanted to fill in the IPTC fields. Made me wonder what NASA does.
Hope this helps, Gary

DAM: integrate/harmonize Collections, Keywords and IPTC location

Lightroom currently presents the user with two independent methods to assign photos to a hierarchical structure: collections and keywords. Unless I missed something, keywords do everything that collections do, and more.
In addition, there is one structure that is inherently hierarchical, but is not currently implemented as such: the IPTC (metadata) location. For instance, the city of Amsterdam lies in the province of North Holland in The Netherlands, so entering Amsterdam in the 'City' field implies a province and a country.
Based on these observations, I have a couple of suggestions:
* Enhance the usability of collections with a few of the keyword features: listing all assigned collections upon selection, and dragging collections onto photos to assign.
* Allow users to convert collection trees to keyword trees, and possibly back (convenient for import/export, or changing ones mind as to what paradigm to use).
* Allow users to either export a keyword tree to the IPTC location fields, or to make a dynamic link between the two (i.e. updating the keyword would immediately affect the location data). This feature would also require an 'exclusivity swith', see below.
* Introduce an 'exclusivity switch' for keywords or collections, implying that you may only assign *one* keyword in its sub-tree to any particular image. This makes sense for location, because an image was made in a particular location, but it can also be used other contexts. For example, to indicate where the latest version of a file has been backed up to, or what the status (imported, selected, processed, finished) of a file is.
* Introduce dynamic collections *and* dynamic keywords. I have read things about query-based dynamic collections coming to Lightroom, but please also create 'dynamic keywords'. This would allow keywords to remain the catch-all organization structure, instead of dividing functionality across collections and keywords.
I think these features could make a significant contribution to Lightroom's DAM capabilities. If implemented alongside improved search capabilities, they would allow me (and possibly others) to stop using my stand-alone DAM application.
Simon

John, I had forgotten the fact that keywords do not have any output settings associated with them, unlike collections. I support your idea of indicating which collections have these settings attached to them.
Still, except for this point, keywords can currently be made to do the same things that collections do. You can even keep them private by choosing not to export certain keywords. Note that even though this is the case, I do not ask for the abolishment of collections per se, because it is convenient to maintain the *conceptual* difference (in addition to the output metadata in collections).
On the locations, I don't think the 'problem' is solved simply by exporting the location data to a keyword tree. It's the other direction that would greatly speed up the workflow. For example, dragging Amsterdam (potentially one of many Amsterdams) onto an image, would automatically assign the higher level fields as well. A metadata preset would indeed do the same, but only after one has created such a preset for every location, which can quickly add up.
Also, I did not mean to imply that dynamic keywords would be beneficial for keeping track of the location metadata. In general, dynamic categories (collections or keywords) are very useful for saving searches or keeping track of an internal workflow (like: if an image is not in a backup collection, it is not backed up). Specifically, I can imagine someone wanting to couple a search result to an exported keyword. For example, for a personal website or a Flickr account, you may want to tag images with the keyword '5stars' that is automatically generated.
The way I see it, there is currently no real difference in the logical structures that can be constructed using collections and keywords. The distinctions between the two are in the input or output phase. It would be a shame to see the logical capabilities of collections enhanced with 'smart' collections, whilst leaving keywords behind.
By the way, I'm all for a scripting interface, but I think that it's best to get the basics implemented in the right way first.
Simon
PS - You pointed out the existence of custom fields as a workflow solution. I have no experience with them, and don't have access to Lightroom on this machine, so I'll get back on that later.

IPTC location metadata import.

Since Aperture 3 doesn't write the GPS EXIF info into the master even when selecting write metadata to master (see post http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2335593&tstart=0) I am using houdageo instead of A3 places feature to geotag referenced pictures. There's however a bug with Aperture 3. After I modify the GPS data and IPTC location fields in Houdageo I select "update metadata from master" in Aperture 3, the GPS info gets updated but not the IPTC location fields.

Same problem here:
- geotagging within Aperture 3 won't write any data into IPTC location tags
- tagging with Maperture Pro with running reverse geocode there gives me the same result: latitude, longitude and altitude are filled in, but neither city nor country and that stuff
Seems to be a but I suppose - these things did work with A2 and Maperture Pro.
Any suggestions or hints -- or do we have to wait for an upgrade?

Metadata: IPTC Location bug

Have clean LR install (no previous beta's) and fresh created database with 1159 images (mixed CR2 and jpg) on PC (AMD 3000+, 1Gig RAM) -and I do know how to maintain WinXP.
I've selected one image and tagged all four IPTC location fields:
Country= Slovenia
State= Doma
City= Doma
Location= Doma
After a while (damn, why this takes so long), fields on the left pane (Metadata Browser) were updated. Then I deleted Location tag and leaved Country, State and City untouched. After a while (again), left pane's content updated and... (I hope you'll understand what I'm trying to say)...
I still see country (Slovenia) there, but it contains zero entries! So I have in total 1159 Location entries, Slovenia zero entries and 1158 Unknown Country -weird. I can click on Slovenia (which is greyed out), but no image gets shown in thumbnail preview. If I look after this particular image manually, I can still see that image's Country is Slovenia (and I can also find image using Find: IPTC=Slovenia). Also I don't see State and City entries (which are "Doma") anymore in left pane.
Yes, I've closed and reopened LR, but things remain the same. There's no way I can force LR to refresh it's database.
Before continuing I need to say, that I AM database approach fan. Here and there I can read LR's database (workflow, speed,..) isn't so bad after all.. and that some are too picky, complaining all the time.... Let me tell, that LR's database approach is one of the worst I've seen so far:
Reflections (updating on the left pane) to every correction made by user takes way too long. Actually I wouldn't care about that (being done in background), but if you type fast enough (on the right pane) and edit your mistakes here and there, then you simply cannot know how far have you come -it takes too long before left pane is up to date.
Why can't I simply select couple of images and drag them into desired Location field (simila as with Keywords)? It's a basic task. Why there's no simply way to see untaged (Not Keyworded, Not Localized, Not edited) files? Yes, I can do something of that with Color/Star/Flag labeling, but why increasing workflow?
I suppose Collections is something like "Albums" in other DAM's. If I click on some thumbnail, how can I know in which collection image is (if in any)?
Why I cannot select (in Collections, Keywords,...) only images which are in selected parent tree (subtree content excluded)?
In short: user shouldn't notice there's database working behind -in this case, I'm quite sure, everybody will like "database paradigm".
Greetings to all,
Bogdan

I think I'm getting to understand IPTC Location issue here (if somebody interested)...
On the left panel (Metadata Browser), tag Location (once filled with some string) has the the lowest (deepest) position in the tree:
Country->State->City->"Location"
If Location is blank, entry resides outside this tree (=Unknown Location inside Location). So, Location tag (not Location section in Metadata Browser) seems to be something like root location tag: if it is empty, other location tags (Country, City,...) aren't managed. Now I'm curious... why does "Unknown Location" reside outside "Unknown Country" -I suppose it should be inside "Unknown City". If there is a reason for being outside, then this tag (Location) shouldn't influence other Location (Country, City...) behaviour.

Location Field and IPTC

Can anyone tell me what IPTC field LR uses for the Location field please? I tried the http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/imagedatabases/iptc_core_mapped.pdf link mentioned in other posts, but Location is not mapped to anything.
I am trying to use a photo gallery program called Gallery and they have a field caleld Sublocation which I have seen referred to as Location, but it is clear as mud to me!!!

It's sub-location. I use it as a higher level than city or when city is inappropriate (often true for my photography). For example, Yellowstone National Park.
Is it this gallery program that you are using?
http://gallery.menalto.com/
When I set up my galleries I couldn't get it to recognize location at all (sub-location). I read some fixes to get it to work but it never did. So I copy it to another field outside of LR and use that field. This may have been fixed, but when I was setting mine up people didn't seem to think a fix would come soon. I'm using Gallery 2.2. If you get location to work, I'd appreciate learning how!
Judy

Set version name from IPTC Title field?

I'm no AppleScript genius but I am sure there shouldn't be a whole lot of lines of code needed for me to grab a selection of images and change their version name to whatever the IPTC title field is.
basically right now the version names are messed up due to tampering but the IPTC metadata is fine, so i want the metadata to prevail over whatever aperture has as name & keywords.
Anyone got an idea of how to do this simply and quickly? I know I have a batch file renaming utility but I don't think that will help me in this case as aperture doesn't 'care' about file name does it?
This is on Aperture 3.5 (latest version)

Lightroom stores metadata in its own database, located:
[Username]/Pictures/Lightroom/Lightroom Database.lrdb (Mac OS) file.
[Username]/My Documents/My Pictures/Lightroom/Lightroom Database.lrdb (Windows) file.
This is different to CS5/Bridge where XMP sidecars contain the metadata for proprietary raw files and in others (DNG, Tiff, jpeg, PSD) it's contained in the XMP headroom within the image file.

IPTC Title field stored in database?

Using LR 3.2 on Win 7
I've imported 37k pictures with the IPTC title field containing data. I can see the data in LR under the IPTC tab field "title". I'm looking at the LR database in SQLite and I can't find that data in the database. Is it not stored in the database? I know about metadata export/import tools but I need to make calls on the database from a custom web app that can get to the data in "title".
It looks like any titles I enter for pictures in LR show up in the MRU table but what about all the pictures I imported with existing data in the title field?
Thanks.

Lightroom stores metadata in its own database, located:
[Username]/Pictures/Lightroom/Lightroom Database.lrdb (Mac OS) file.
[Username]/My Documents/My Pictures/Lightroom/Lightroom Database.lrdb (Windows) file.
This is different to CS5/Bridge where XMP sidecars contain the metadata for proprietary raw files and in others (DNG, Tiff, jpeg, PSD) it's contained in the XMP headroom within the image file.

MB5B - Stock on posting date doesn't show Storage Location field

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I run report MB5B - Stock on posting date with Stock Types = Storage Loc/Batch Stock, but the report doesn't show
Storage Location field in result.
How can I see it in this report?
Thank you very much for your kind support!
Cao Huy.

hi
what i think i sthis report is only for the OPENINGand CLOSING stock for the period or day
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ICal bug: cannot copy/paste into location field of exchange 2007 calendar

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Change of Search help for location field in report incident

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i have added new fields Region,BSA in the report incident form .here based on the region entered in the search help the corresponding bsa have to be displayed in the search help of BSA .these are achieved customising the search help exit FM EHFND_SHLP_EXIT_F4_BOBF_QUERY.
similarly based on the BSA entered in the BSA field Location field search help should filter the values and display .the isues here are
1. the location field and search help attached are standard and they are being used in many instances .
2.when i click on the f4 help the control doesnt stop any where in the feeder class CL_EHHSS_INC_Q_LOC_UI_FRM of the form though i put the breakpoints .ie the event on enter locid is not getting triggered.
my question is where can i write the code to filter the values being displayed in the location search help.
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Luxmi

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How can i add STORAGE LOCATION field which is not...............

hi,
sap gurus,
good morning to all,
how can i add STORAGE LOCATION field which is not in the standard tables namely
KOMP, KOMK, and KOMG.
how to include it in our FIELDS FROM FIELD CATALOGUE.
if we include this field is there any impact on the standard tables.
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Changing standard tables will have serious impact when you apply patches or do an upgrade on the existing functionality.
REWARD POINTS IF HELPFUL
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Location field in Incoming Payment

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My client requirement is that they want to have Location in the Incoming payment window but in that its not possible to get that. I can map that through UDF but this does not solve my problem as through UDF i can give it for storing the information as far as reporting i concerned i cant get it. So please help me out. Thanks is advance.
With best regards,
Murtuza Ahmed.

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Can you please explain what does location field mean and where it is defined . Location is usually used in Item master data as UDF to work as a bin location .I don't think so your client want to see where item is located in incoming payment.
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I really appreciate for your advices on how to display Functional Location Field in Asset Master data.
I have checked the configuration on path IMG:\Financial Accounting->Asset Accounting->Master Data->Screen Layout->Define Screen Layout for Master Data
I have chosen the screen layout and review all Logical Field Groups. And there's no field "Functional Location" is available. I also didn't find "Add New" button to add "Functional Location" field.
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Dear Frans,
I am sorry this is not possible.
Note 140482:
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by modification.
regards Bernhard

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As per our proces, if PR is created from work order and if there is no storage location in work order then PO will have warehouse address as a shipping address. So it is expected that PR must have storage location details when it is created from work order to avoid incorrect shipping address in PO.
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Also I want to avoid the users to deliberately removing the storage location and making it blank.
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You will have to use one of the below mentioned user exits to accomplsih this requirement.
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