Capture And Join Multiple High Resolution Google Maps

Have you ever spend hours hitting the ‘print screen’ button on your keyboard followed by the ‘Ctrl + V’ button into Photoshop CS? Trying to stitch individual screen shots together is really time consuming. Try Google Maps Buddy – a downloader and joiner. Best of all, this tool is completely FREE and buggy, but it gets the job done, no complains.

• Capture your Google Maps offline and store them as images on your hard drive
• Print out maps of entire cities at zoom levels that would take hours to put together with the current Google facility

Click ‘Goto Google Maps’

Click ‘Select Area’, draw a rectangle on the map with the ‘hand’ icon, I know, this is kind of confusing, it should have been a marquee icon instead of the hand icon.

Select zoom detail 17 then hit ‘Create Map Image’. It will now start downloading the selected area from Google Maps.

A window will appear, again, this is kind of confusing, it should have been ‘save’ instead of ‘open’. Type in the filename and hit ‘Open’ to save the map.

Volla! A detailed map which would take a very long time to create manually using Photoshop and ‘print screen’ is now possible in less than a minute.

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