Once I faced with task to download some area of Google maps… At first I tried to glue some downloaded google maps images together manually, but gave up very soon. After googling on the Internet, I found this video:
http://www.wipeout44.com/video/misc/google_maps_large.asp
how to downloan google map. I got the point.
Inspired by this, I decided to dive in GMap API… By using some sample I wrote simple script, that handles most part of this process automatically.. You just need to select intrested region, zoom, map type and wait 
Method used is the same as in video, it loads selected region in one big viewport and after it is loaded, converts it into Canvas, which can be saved as .PNG image.
Feel free to try it:
