How to Save Google Maps
I know at one point you wished you could save the maps you see in Google Maps. Maybe it was for a project, or perhaps you can’t be online every day to access the map. I was able to device a way in saving Google Maps out of frustration since online resources didn’t work.
Here’s what you need:
Avant Browser
Adobe Photoshop (I have CS3)
Notepad
Why Avant? According to a video tutorial, one can download a Screengrab addon and it should allow a screen capture of your browser. It didn’t work for me so I used another browser. Photoshop will be used in stitching the maps. Notepad will server as your HTML editor.
1. Go to maps.google.com and locate the map you want to save. In this example, I want to save a map of UP Diliman. Click the Link button on the right and highlight and copy the HTML code.
2. Paste the HTML code in Notepad. By default, the width is 425 and height is 350. You can change this to your preferred dimension. Expect a slowness of your system as the dimension get bigger. I used 2000 by 1000 pixels. Save the document as an HTML file. In my case, I saved it as map.html.
3. Open map.html in Avant. Once the page is loaded, go to File > Save Current Page as Image
4. Re-do steps 1 to 3, this time, select a portion of the map that wasn’t saved yet.
5. Let’s assume that you have 2 sections of the map. Open Photoshop and open the image files that you want to merge. Go to File > Automate > Photomerge. Select Add Open Files. If you haven’t opened the files yet, select Browse. Wait for the files to merge. Keep doing the steps if you want to have a complete copy of Google Maps saved in your hard drive.
By they way, the map that I did initially had UP Diliman only. It now extended to Fairview in the north, and SLEX in the south.
