Google Earth, saving imagery for later?

Factual Questions
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Hi all.

I am going on a camping trip in a couple days. I’ll have some access to power but probably no internet connection. Its going to be play it day by day as far as when we do what and where we do it. Google Earth imagery and GPS numbers would be real handy in planning daily events.

The area we will range for the week makes printing out hard copies of the area’s of interest not very practical (particularly if I zoom in to show critical features).

So, is there a way for me to save Google Earth imagery to my computer for later use where/when I don’t have internet access? I just have the basic free Google Earth if that matters.

Yeah, I admit I am being a bit lazy asking this question here, but due to some life circumstances this trip has kinda snuck up on me and I am a bit presssed for time to get ready as it is.

Thanks in advance for any input!

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Menu bar. File.Save>Save Image…

Ctl+Alt+S

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Set GE to the image you want > file > save image > name image. Lather, rinse, repeat.

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Thanks Runner Pat.

A question about that. Lets say I’ve got Google Earth zoomed in (or out) so that the frame is showing an area thats something like 20 miles by 30 miles. And I save the image. Later, when I use the image, will I be able to zoom WAYYY in and see the smallest details you can typically when using Google Earth live? And what about historical imagery? Do I need to go back to older imagery and save it on a date by date basis?

Thanks again.

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You’re taking a screen shot of the Google Earth window. You’ll need to zoom in or out for each separate image.

It saves as a .jpg and if you zoom in, it gets pixelated so I assume it’s taking the image at your monitor’s resolution.

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Anything you display in Google Earth stays in its disk cache until the cache fills up. The cache can still be used offline. Install & uninstall Google Earth Pro - Google Earth Help

Obviously, increasing the disk cache size will let you cache more.

Searching for “google earth” offline turns up results such as this one: http://offlinegoogleearth.blogspot.com/

I haven’t done this in a setting like yours, so I suggest you read a lot of the search results and try it out extensively. And still print out some views for backup.

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There’s a program called Gmapmaker that can download the google earth tiles for a square you enter as .jpg images. Or at least it used to be able to-- last time I used it it didn’t work for google anymore, but it could still download similar imagery from terraserver and other sources. Here’s the link: Mobile GMaps - Map Tile Caching tools

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I’ve used a tool called GoogleMapBuddy to do exactly what the OP requires. It worked great, and you could select the range and size of your output.

Unfortunately, the website indicates that the creator has taken it down after being informed by Google that he was violating their terms of service.

I’m away from home right now, and the program is on my desktop computer at home. I’m going to check when i get home next week whether it still works.