Capture And Join Multiple High Resolution Google Maps

July 19, 2009 · Filed Under Architecture Tutorials · 2 Comments
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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

Capture And Join Multiple High Resolution Google Maps
Click ‘Goto Google Maps’

Capture And Join Multiple High Resolution 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.

Capture And Join Multiple High Resolution Google Maps
Select zoom detail 17 then hit ‘Create Map Image’. It will now start downloading the selected area from Google Maps.

Capture And Join Multiple High Resolution 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.

Capture And Join Multiple High Resolution Google Maps
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.