Writing GPS Metadata to Masters

There is already an archived discussion that contains an aswer on this subject
Writing IPTC Metadata to Masters  and an  the answer is given in that thread is to use a plug-in called Maperture Pro.
Unfortunately this plug-in is no longer available. It can still be downloaded (from a number of places) and installed but you cannot get past the registration process as it has been shut down. Therefore I would like to ask the question.
Does anybody know how can I write GPS data (from places) back into my (referenced) masters without exporting them or duplicating the functionality with tools like, the otherwise excellent, exiftool outside of Aperture.
This is really upsetting my workflow.
Thanks, Ian

No, never got an answer to this so I use Houdahgeo for putting in GPS coordinates before import when posible, anoying but workeable.

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    2) Is there no IPTC-standard field for people shown in a photo? (I know Aperture/iPhoto's Faces is proprietary, and I'm guessing so is Adobe's People field in their XML metadata.) Should I then just assign people's names as keywords, or is there a better way? (This wouldn't be a problem, as relatively few of my photos have human subjects.)
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    4) Finally, I've tested writing the tags to the masters on a few of them, and I've noticed the "date created" shown in the Finder gets changed to the current date and time - Does this mean the entire file was re-created? Would Time Machine have to then re-copy all of them? (My masters total 153 GB, so that might take a while to back up.)
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    viskwal: That's about what I figured. Actually, tagging Faces as keywords will be easy for me since I already have a smart album for each person in Faces. (They're in folders by context - that is, classmate, coworker, family member, etc. - just in case, years down the road, I see a name and don't remember how I know that person.)
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    Michael Hobi: Thanks for the link - I think I'm ok as far as those lengths are concerned. (I have a few long names in the Location field, but that wasn't mentioned there.) As for the write time, that's actually about what I figured - it won't be instantaneous, but at least I'm reasonably sure it won't go on for days. (My original import from iPhoto took 17 hours!)

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    I am sure that the aperture community has dealt with this before.
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    Alright this is really dumb. Aperture strips the GPS metadata for managed images on a version export, but does not for referenced files.
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