Re: Converting a google map in to an image

On Dec 23, 12:06 pm, Kesuke <Nick_dai...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> The only mechanism that immiediately springs to mind to achieve this
> is a PHP imagegrabwindow() command, which is very poorly supported and
> takes a lot of fiddling to work, and even then it's tempremental.
> Additionally you would need to get special permission if you want to
> do something like that, which you would be unlikely to get since the
> terms are so cut and dry. Because google are being licesensed the map
> data/images themselves they probably can't authorise its use beyond
> their current remit. Although .pdf files appear on the web, acrobat
> reader is not a web-browser by any means.
>
> The only options that are really viable are to either contact them and
> ask or to find an alternative way of making it print friendly like
> generating a paper size constrained webpage, that will print more like
> a normal document than a widescreen webpage.

Supposing that Google does grant us written permission to use images
as described in my previous post, is there some way to generate images
as the Static Maps API where there would be too much information to
encode in a usable URL?

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