Printing from Google Earth

secret squire · 19 Jul 2007 at 14:11

Hello,

I am trying to print out some maps from Google Earth, with the Lat/Long grids overlaid. I view the grids on the screen, however, when I print them, the gridlines are shown, yet there are no labels for lat/long, thus making them useless for my cunning plan of using them with a hand-held gps.

Does anyone know how to do this, as I'm failing so far!

Thanks

TheKnat · 19 Jul 2007 at 14:18

1) Get want you want to show on google earth.
2) Press Print Screen key.
3) Paste into Paint
4) Print!

ns400r · 19 Jul 2007 at 14:45

Just turned the grid on here and the lines print with no intervention from me.

secret squire · 19 Jul 2007 at 14:46

I have to confess, I didn't think of that (doh!), however, when I try that, I'm finding it impossible to get it to fill an A4 sheet - no matter how much faffing around I do with 'fit to a4 and all that, it only fills about 1/8th of the page - any ideas??

I am only using MSPaint, but don't have any other stuff on at the moment, as I never do much graphic stuff.

Cheers,

SS

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The lines are printing fine, but not the labels - i.e. the actual lat/long so I can use them with the GPS. :s

TheKnat · 19 Jul 2007 at 16:14

Put the image into paint and then save it as a jpeg file. Then go to the file right click and choose print. The MS photo printing wizard pops up and lets you choose to print it full page.

rickyt · 19 Jul 2007 at 18:23

@secret squire , did you know you can download parts of the Google Map and export them onto your PDA , not sure about a designated GPS device .I use a Navman PIN570 running SmartST and TomTom6 . The downloaded maps are automatically configured to the GPS system .You simply buy this clever bit of software [about £20] and install it onto your device . Visit the website , it has it's own version of the Google maps , find location , ie .holiday destination , your town or village , click export and place them onto your PDA . Start the program and import your map , you can zoom in or out and it will plot your course . It's very good if your into this type of thing .

check it out @

h**p://w*w.trackthisout.com/index.html#TrackMe.html