Grab maps ....
Prepare maps for your holidays, your walking, your bike trips, your geocaching... You
can next print them or use them with your GPS!
This utility automatically scrolls, captures, assembles and saves maps (or other window content) from a Web page to a JPG file.
This program is free ware. Written in C# .NET2.0
Project source code is licensed under a free software/open source licensing terms:
GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or laterHow to use?
- Go to the desired Web site, maximize your browser window.
- Locate the desired area on the map and zoom to the desired scale.
- In order to MapGrabber automatically realize the right scrolling, you have to parameter it according to the Web site.
Press the button 1 in MapGrabber (see illustrations), next click on the left/top corner of the map. To avoid capturing the toolbar, you can define the corner just below it.
Press the button 2 in MapGrabber, next click on the right/bottom corner of the map.
- To devide output image by slises, set the steps in one part.
- If you would like to calibrate maps in time of grabbing, you can use GPS Callibration part of the MapGrabber
You can now Save the settings for future use; each Web site will have its own settings.
The main screen:
[MainScreen
+]
- Menu:
Settings - Load and save your current settings for future using.
Help - The link to this page and information about me.
- Map Settings:
The position of left/top and right/left bounds of map, without active elements, on the screen. You can set points by enter the coordinates or by clicking on button "Point" and dragging the [point
+] icon to he's place on the screen.
- Capture Settings:
Delay Scroll - When Map grabber moving the map in map display program (Firefox), to program take time to response for her events. So need to delay Map grabber events according to response of display program.
Delay Capture - When Map grabber the map in map display program (Firefox), to load new images take some time. So you must set the parameter according to speed image loading.
Number of X/Y Steps - How match steps to do.
- Output image settings:
Divide Image X/Y - By how match steps divide the output image. Some programs that using output maps on pocket PC, take a lot time to load big image.