Art, On Saturday 11 February 2006 13:10, Art Fore wrote:
On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 11:00 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
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Most browsers can save images they're displaying separately and / or copy the URL used to retrieve that image to the clipboard so you can download it using curl or wget. In Mozilla and Firefox, both these functions are available via the context menu--right-click on the image to display that menu, which includes the commands "Copy Image Location" and "Save Image As...".
From there, there are several image editing applications you could use to add the overlays you need. Gimp is the high end, of course, being comparable to Photoshop.
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Apparently, Google disables that in both Opera & Firefox. I can do it on another website, but not on maps.google.com with the satellite photo.
What in the world does that mean? How does Google disable functions in your browser? Ah. I see. First of all, their maps are tiled (what appears to be a single map image is actual several smaller ones). Secondly they apparently are capturing mouse-click events on the map images and diverting or consuming them so they cannot activate the usual functions (using JavaScript). I just tried disabling JavaScript in Mozilla (after displaying a Google Maps page). Sure enough, the context menu returns. Unfortunately, this does not solve the tiling issue and you'd have to perform 16 separate save actions then tile the images back together in an image editor!
Ksnapshot works good though.
As long as you can get the whole map on the monitor.
Art
Randall Schulz