Announcement!
Both GMS and GMS.NET confirmed to work on Windows 10 Release.
As many of you noticed since Google changed their maps GMS experienced problems.
If you have problems with GMS please try GMS.NET from www.codres.de/gms-net-download.
Please let me know by writing a comment if GMS.NET works better for you.
TIP: To get rid of the bogus icons on top of the map, simply click the content of the map, once, before saving. Please Note that GMS.NET requires Microsoft.NET v3.5+What’s new?
144 MPixel Map from OpenStreetMap created with GMS.NET View it here
It seems that TIFF format is more optimized for huge map sizes so please save as TIFF for big resolution.
March 2014 – As Google changed their API I recommend trying GMS.NET. If it works better than old GMS let me know, write a comment!
January 2013 – Here are some descriptions about Google Maps Saver in various languages:
| Italiano | François | Español | Português | Russian | Chinese |
September 2012 – Apparently Google Maps Saver was used for this nice project.
September 17, 2011 – As expected the GMS is working on Windows 8. Here is the video and a preview of GMS.NET (Microsoft .NET required).
April 30, 2011 – Got some time to recompile and work on GMS. Version 1.0.3 is out. If you download it and run it you will get also a tutorial.
History/Hints/News:
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- 15 November 2012 – GMS Trends on Google Trends
- 16 February 2012 – Found here a Good How-To about Google Maps Saver in Chinese
- 29 April 2011 – Google Map Saver on Linux.
- 10 november 2010 – The winter is long here in Germany, that means that I may get some time to update Google Map Saver ;-). So, please comment any bugs or features on this thread. I will consider them by the number of the requests.
- 20 September 2010 – GMS has now over 100.000 direct downloads from my website and around 110.000 search pages on Google. I just want to emphasize this, for the GMS users who forget that the GMS is a FREE, non-commercial software. I’m updating and respond to your questions in my spare time (when I get some). Thanks for you patience and thanks for using GMS fairly
- 22 June 2010 – Excerpt from Hak5 Episode 712 — Disk Cloning and Offline Maps of Google Maps Saver
http://www.hak5.org/episodes/episode-712
- 22 June 2010 – Excerpt from Hak5 Episode 712 — Disk Cloning and Offline Maps of Google Maps Saver
- 28 November 2009 – Version 1.0.2 is out
- Fixed PNG bug
- 26 October 2009 – You can follow me on Twitter to get updates
- 25 October 2009 – FAQ and Issues here
- 23 October 2009 – 1.0.1 (beta) released
- Remembers up to 128 locations that you typed
- You can add your custom resolution, just type e.g 1456×2345 in the Resolution Box and press the plus button. With Minus button you can remove a certain entry
- Able to save last actions and last window location after exit
- 21 October 2009 – You can type in the Resolution box whichever resolution you want (e.g. 31234 x 4321)
- 7 July 2009 – Can Save Maps (PNG, Targa, BMP) bigger than 200 MPixel
- 5 July 2009 – Added Targa Save Support
- 30 June 2009 – First Beta
Google Map Saver (GMS) offers you an easy way to download big Google Maps on your PC as JPEG, PNG-8, PNG-24, BMP or Targa files. GMS is light (only ~400 KBytes) and very easy to run since doesn’t have an installer. Just download it on your Desktop and Run-It!
GMS runs on Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Vista and Windows 7.
GMS is 100% free, no spyware!
Here is a sample map saved with GMS
and here is the BIG jpeg (on Flickr)
Removing the Watermark
Just follow the steps described in the image bellow in order to activate your free copy.
GMS is not Crippleware. The superimposed watermark can be removed, easily, with three clicks. It is there only that you visit the About Box 😉
By Downloading and running GMS you agree with the license and with the “Fair Use” terms listed bellow.
Fair Use
I was trying to be fair, in relation with you, the user, by giving this application for free, so please try the same and please follow my recomandations:
- Do not use maps created with GMS for commercial purpose.
- Do not use the downloaded maps in conjunctions with navigation hardware.
- Even if it is possible to retrieve greather than 4000×4000 pixels maps, I don’t recommend you to do that.
- Do not try to automate GMS with automation tools (e.g. AutoHotKey). You will break the Google’s Terms of Use (bulk download).
- Do not remove the Google overlays and copyright notes.
Q&A
- Q: Can I run it on Linux or Mac?
A: I think you can by using WineHQ. - Q: I think your tool breaks the Google’s Terms of Use
A: I was thinking about this before I made the application public. What I can tell you, is that I’m not using any tricks (e.g. direct and bulk downloads) to get the maps. I’m simply using the a standard Google URL via IFRAME. Google allows us to see bigger maps. I found is possible, I did it. In GMS one user request = one Google Maps access. No bulk download. - Q: There are other ways to save Google maps?
A: Yes! They are. Some are commercial OR there are some free Firefox hacks. I’m not competing theese solutions. I just wanted something simple AND free. - Q: How can I contribute?
A: Make some comments, give some suggestions, spread the word, digg it or… - Q: Will you keep this tool free?
A: Yes
GMS is Beta! If you find any bugs or you have any ideas please comment.
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User’s Tips
1. First, find out the address of your Google My Place, should look like this:http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&dg=feature&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=213353022109462492729.0004ef95b833ce8288e9f
2. Just enter any location in the “Location/POI” and the resolution you wanted. As for “Zoom” and “Map Type” you can adjust later.
3. Once the image appear, right-click on the small white gap between the map image and the blue bar, select view source.
4. Once the Notepad appear, replace the address starting with http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&q=(your search Location/POI) with your Google My Places address.
5. Save As your Notepad and select “All Files”, Your filename should end with .htm
6. Open your .htm file with your web browser.
7. Adjust your “Zoom” and “Map Type” to your likening.
8. Once you have decide the final view of your map, from the dropdown menu of your Fireshot extension/addon select “Capture entire page and…”, “Save” , select format you want.
9. Done.
Thanks for your work
but how can I accuritly identify the coordinations for certain single city (e.g. zagazig , Egypt ) by using this program
waiting for ur reply, thanks
@hatemnady: The focus of GMS is to save the maps for off-line use. If you want to get the accurat coordinates of a specific city/location please use Google Maps or Google Earth.
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Thanks ^_^
When I try to save a map gms seem to work. But satellite view dos not seem to work- at all zoom settings its says there is no imagery for this zzom elevel. Is is how its suppose to be? Any way to save large satellite image? Mihow
Dear Daniel,
Your software may do a great job but I’m not sure yet.
When I download the map of an area let’s say at a resolution of 4096 x 4096 with 15x zoom, GMS loads a pretty big Google map of the area that you have to scroll horizontally and vertically to assess different parts of the map. However when I click to save the image, only a window size of the whole map (about 1400×700, 96dpi on my 15” laptop) will be saved to the hard.
Is there a problem with my system that is not saving the whole downloaded map or it is just the way GMS works? If this is true, then you have to take tens of screen shots and somehow join them together in Photoshop or so to make the whole map for offline use. This is a very time consuming long process that can be done on Google maps itself. I wonder what is the use of GMS then? Appreciate prompt replies, especially from yourself.
Such a great Application! Keep it up!
help pleasee theres a bug with this app
1- it doesnt view correctly it shows on many places x x x it shows nothing
2-it has a bug when i set resolution 5000 x 5000 with 16 zoom i want to save whole of istanbul , but i cant it sometimes put the hand and sometimes put the rectangle , and it doesnt show whole istanbul when i move with the mouse i need the map to be saved the whole not the only place i went in the map so i need resolution 5000 with 16 zoom but i need whole istanbul how????
Interessant. Kommt hier noch ein weiterer Beitrag? Würde gern mehr darüber wissen. Kannst du mir per E-Mail eine Antwort geben?
Thanks about this application. I made one like this… It’s a good trick to use a webbrowser component in a picturebox (and it’s works nice) but is there anyway to use multi sockets like firefox…?
first I tried to connect to google map servers khm0/khm1/khm2/khm3. but there were 152,022 pictures for my city map with zoom 19.
and it’s too slow for big pictures.
I used it to download whole Manhattan in a minute.
I thank you very much.
I’ll het it printed out and start studying. 😉
How can i get the coordinate?
I feel you are too good to write Genius!Thanks for posting, maybe we can see more on this.
I would like to center the map on coordinates I get from google maps, but it seems to me that the coordinate system used by gms are different: am I missing something?
Bedankt voor dit prachtige programma, ik gebruik het bijna dagelijks.
danke jan
Is there anyway that to set an alternate URL so that this can work on a mashup?
Excellent, that’s like 10 out of 10 or A+
Keep the great work.
Hello!
Great Tool, thanks! Is there a possibility to save a map *without* a placemarker in the center of the maps?
thanks
Kurt
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Thank you for this blog. Thats all I can say. You most definitely have made this blog into something thats eye opening and important.
Google-Map-Saver este o aplicatie software excelenta, care permite utilizarea off-line a hartilor in format digital. Personal o folosesc mai mult in mediul educational, cu rezultate excelente.
Odata cu versiunea 1.0.2 a devenit mai eficienta si mai usor de utilizat.
Sper ca Daniel sa continue dezvolatarea si imbunatatirea acestei aplicatii.
Severin Cazanescu
its a usefull information, thanks a lot
This was a very good read by you looking forward to visit more really soon.
Hey, big thanks for hard work of deverlopers, really cool program. But i have error “out of memory” when I try to save a 12k x 12k pixels with jpeg format, so how to fix this error?
Tip: Instead of the program work only with geographic coordinates, is how it captures the image of a selected region in the same way as does the GOOGLE MAP BUDDY? The program is excellent, congratulations.
You you should change the blog subject title Google Map Saver | GUI.brush Blog to something more better for your content you create. I loved the post all the same.
Great program. Lets me avoid dirty hacks I’ve used in the past. Please add the ability to “navigate” that is bump 1 or more tiles in any direction. Trying to manipulate the coordinate pair sucks.
I thought I was the only one who had the same point of view.