Set GPS coordinates of media items in Photos using GPX file

PhotosGPX.scpt

(*

To use:

1- Launch Photos
2- Select photos for which you want to set the GPS location based on a .gpx file
3- Adjust date/time of photos (if necessary)
4- Launch script, select GPX file, wait

*)

set tzString to do shell script "date '+%z'"
set hoursOffset to (text 1 thru 3 of tzString) as number
set minutesOffset to (text 1 thru 1 of tzString) & (text 4 thru 5 of tzString) as number
set timeOffset to hoursOffset * 60 + minutesOffset
set decimalSeparator to text 2 thru 2 of (0.0 as text)

on iso8601(dateString)
	set resultDate to the current date
	set the year of resultDate to (text 1 thru 4 of dateString)
	set the month of resultDate to (text 6 thru 7 of dateString)
	set the day of resultDate to (text 9 thru 10 of dateString)
	set the hours of resultDate to (text 12 thru 13 of dateString)
	set the minutes of resultDate to (text 15 thru 16 of dateString)
	set the seconds of resultDate to (text 18 thru 19 of dateString)
	return resultDate + (my timeOffset) * minutes
end iso8601

on parseDecimal(decimalString)
	set oldDelimiters to AppleScript's text item delimiters
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "."
	set decimalResult to (text item 1 of decimalString & my decimalSeparator & text item 2 of decimalString) as real
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelimiters
	return decimalResult
end parseDecimal

on binarySearch(xmlFilePath, photoTime)
	tell application "System Events" to tell XML element "trk" of XML element "gpx" of XML file xmlFilePath
		repeat with seg in (every XML element whose name = "trkseg")
			set lastRecordedTime to my iso8601((value of XML element "time" of last XML element of seg) as string)
			if photoTime < lastRecordedTime then
				set trks to every XML element of seg
				set startIndex to 1
				set endIndex to count of trks
				repeat until startIndex = endIndex
					set midpoint to startIndex + (endIndex - startIndex) div 2
					set midpointTime to my iso8601(value of XML element "time" of item midpoint of trks)
					if photoTime ≤ midpointTime then
						set endIndex to midpoint
					else
						set startIndex to midpoint + 1
					end if
				end repeat
				exit repeat
			end if
		end repeat
		
		tell XML element startIndex of seg
			set latitude to my parseDecimal(value of XML attribute "lat" as text)
			set longitude to my parseDecimal(value of XML attribute "lon" as text)
			set altitude to my parseDecimal(value of XML element "ele" as text)
			return {latitude, longitude, altitude}
		end tell
	end tell
end binarySearch

tell application "Photos"
	set photos to (get the selection)
	set gpxFile to (choose file with prompt "Select a GPX file" of type {"com.apple.dt.document.gpx"}) as string
	
	set AppleScript's progress description to "Geotagging photos"
	set AppleScript's progress total steps to count of photos
	set AppleScript's progress completed steps to 0
	repeat with photo in photos
		set thisItem to my binarySearch(gpxFile, date of photo)
		-- No interpolation; assumes that you haven't moved in a while if the time isn't exact.
		set location of photo to items 1 thru 2 of thisItem
		-- Apparently, the Photos script defs lie and media items don't have an 'altitude' property.
		--set altitude of photo to item 3 of thisItem
		set AppleScript's progress completed steps to (AppleScript's progress completed steps) + 1
	end repeat
end tell

7 years old now, but still very valuable for my needs, GREAT, thank you a lot!

I had to change "com.apple.dt.document.gpx" to "public.xml", though. There were also problems with decimals without ".". A simple if clause eliminates this bug and now I can happily tag my DSLR photos with geotags sampled by iOS app MapOut.