02/20/2008 Internet

Google Maps Images Downloader is a cute tool that help you to get small tile satellite images from Google Maps.



Firstly, enter a project name, such like "MyNewProject.gmid". All project files are saved as *.gmid. If you want to continue a old project, click button "Open project".

There are 4 parameters (Left Longitude, Right Longitude, Top Latitude, Bottom Latitude) to define the area scope of images that you want to download.

The zoom parameter define the image precision.

And you can define how many threads you want to start to download at the same time.

Select a path to save the project and downloaded images, then click button "Download", OK, start downloading now ... !

When downloading, the log window will display the downloading process. When finished, the log will be saved to a file.



Parameters explainment:

1. Left Longitude: -180<180, for East, the value is positive, for West, the value is negative.
2. Right Longitude:-180<180, for East, the value is positive, for West, the value is negative.
3. Top Latitude:-90<90,for North, the value is positive,for South, the value is negative.
4. Bottom Latitude:-90<90,for North, the value is positive,for South, the value is negative.
5. Zoom: defines the image precision, the max zoom is 19. (For trial version, the max zoom is 13)
6: Threads number: defines how many threads you want to use to download at the same time. The max threads number is 64.

The followed sketch map explains the area scope:



For longitude and latitude, the input measurement is degree. You can convert the measurement of "Degrees, Minutes,Seconds" to "Degrees" by click menu "Tools->Convert 'Degrees,Minutes,Seconds' to 'Degrees'...".