On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:42:48 -0800 Randall R Schulz
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!
Been there. The easy (or easier) way (in FF): Do "Tools > Page Info", select the images/tiles, and download from the right-click popup (IIRC). Putting them back together again in gimp is fairly simple if you do the math on the size and positions of the tiles and then use that geometry when setting the size of the New gimp image you'll be creating. There's some other apps in linux I've used for drafting and such... used them to design my new kitchen, a couple different decks, and to draw up the property as a whole. All that was a lot of brain cells ago... but I think the name of the app I used was either dia or xfig. There's others too. You might want to see if gimp can input and/or output to a graphic/file format so that you could combine the power of gimp with the more endgoal focus of one of the drafting apps. hth, ken -- "This world ain't big enough for the both of us," said the big noema to the little noema.