Download google map, save as image

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 no good way to make it automatically.

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 does the following, 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

Save google maps as image, jpg or png

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