
gpx file, and load it into Lightroom 4, and then do whatever else you have to do. Step 3: Once you have extracted the kml file from the kmz file, you can use a utility such as GPSBabel on windows, mac or linux () to convert the file from "Google Earth (Keyhole) Markup Language" to "GPS XML".
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kmz files are just kml files that have been compressed using the zip compression standard, so any standard compression software should be able to read it and extract the kml file that is inside. The alternative is to, without renaming, just try to open the file directly in a program like Stuffit Expander on a mac, or Winzip in windows. Step 1: Download the KMZ file to your mac or PC using the provided software. If anyone is still unsure of this problem, I *think* that I figured it out on a Mac setup, and the Windows solution should be almost identical.
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What am I missing? Surely, someone has figured out how to work the Canon track log + Lightroom + Mac combination. I haven't found other software that does, and my Google searches seem to come up cold. kmz files, at least as far as I can tell. GPSBabel, which everyone seems to think handles all sorts of such conversions, doesn't recognize. Canon appears to use some proprietary format, which can be exported as a. gpx format, which is the only one Lightroom understands. Nice in theory, too, but I haven't found a way to convert the track log into a. Import the track log into Lightroom, and have Lightroom match the images with the locations. Way #2: download the track log using the supplied Canon software, but load the images directly into Lightroom. Nice in theory, but it crashes my Mac every time I attempt it. Way #1: download the track log and the images using the supplied Canon software, then click the "Automatically add GPS data to images" button. There seem to be two ways to do this, neither of which I can make work. That means that to mark the 7D images, I need to link the images to a track log, unless I want to buy another GP-E2 device, which I don't.

That's no problem if I attach the Canon GP-E2 GPS device directly to my 5DIII, but there are times (shooting sports) I use that camera alongside a 7D.
