I have been reading this thread with interest, as I have a related GPS issue which I hope I can pick your collective brains about.
I have recently been using a Jobo photoGPS unit in the hotshoe of my 5D. It is a great little device, but I think it is greatly let down by its software.
The main drawback is that the Jobo software will not work without an internet connection. This is quite a problem when you are staying somewhere with no telephone and very patchy mobile phone reception, as I was last week.
So, rather than sync the GPS data with my photos prior to editing in Lightroom, as I have done in the past, I had to just get on with editing and hope that I could incorporate the GPS data later. Fat chance. Now that I am back home I find that I can't add the Jobo GPS data to Lightroom without losing all of my Lightroom development settings (i.e. the Jobo XMP will overwrite the Lightroom XMP), and there is no way I am losing those.
So, could someone please suggest a way, perhaps using Exiftools, of extracting the GPS data from a number of Jobo-generated XMP files and inserting it into the corresponding Lightroom-generated XMP file without losing any of the Lightroom settings?
Here is the GPS data extracted from the Jobo-generated XMP file:
<exif:GPSAltitude>1085104/6253</exif:GPSAltitude>
<exif:GPSAltitudeRef>0</exif:GPSAltitudeRef>
<exif:GPSLatitude>50,29.450526N</exif:GPSLatitude>
<exif:GPSLongitude>4,30.110615W</exif:GPSLongitude>
<exif:GPSMapDatum>WGS-84</exif:GPSMapDatum>
<exif:GPSTimeStamp>2009-11-13T10:13:01</exif:GPSTimeStamp>
<exif:GPSVersionID>2 2 0 0</exif:GPSVersionID>
I have tried using exiftools and the examples quoted in the previous posts, but I'm afraid my brain just isn't very good at macros, scripts, command lines and the like.
Meanwhile, I have also been using Jeffrey Friedl's "Geoencoding Support" Lightroom Plugin, which is excellent: quick, easy, does the job. Highly recommended.