Use Aperture to geotag photos, then export

I am using my iPhone to track my location when I take pictures with my digital camera. The app on my iPhone produces a .gpx file, and Aperture uses it to geotag my photos. These geotags appear in Aperture and iPhoto. So far so good!
I am also maintaining a Picasa photo library for my wife's Windows PC. I would like to export these geotagged pictures from Aperture or iPhoto so I can import them in to Picasa - but I want to keep the geotag information and not recompress the file. When I export pictures from Aperture, the files come out a different size - too different to merely be the geotag information. I think the picture is being recompressed.
Can I export without recompressing? I think I'm missing something pretty simple!
Thanks!

Andreas Yankopolus wrote:
$ exiftool -geotag trackname.gpx *.ORF
Thanks Andreas! I'm assuming I would put my logger file in the same folder as the pictures, and then navigate to this folder in Terminal before giving the command? I don't know a lot about command line stuff.
Frank Cagiano wrote:
You keep using this term 'recompressing'  but you've never stated what image format you are importing into Aperture or how you are exporting the images from Aperture.
If you could describe your workflow in some detail including how you are exporting from Aperture and the settings you are using and explain what problems you are having a solution  simpler then those proposed might be available.
Sorry! I am pretty new to this. I am just using the JPEGs my little Canon S100 gives me. This camera actually has a built-in GPS, but it rarely works and if it does it take ages to lock on. My iPhone does a better job, so I am trying out different geotag apps to see if there is one I like. I am planning to upgrade my camera this year, and if I can get the iPhone geotagging working well I have many more choices of camera open to me. I may shoot in raw, but I really don't do much beyond cataloging my pictures to look at them later.

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