# Screen captures from Google Maps?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screen-captures-from-google-maps/957427>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 8, 2022, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screen-captures-from-google-maps/957427 "2022-01-08T13:51:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screen-captures-from-google-maps/957427/21 "2022-01-09T18:42:24Z")

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On my Win 10 machine, I first press the prt-scr button and the automatic snipping tool opens. I move the mouse to the upper left corner of whatever rectangular area I want to capture, press the left mouse button and move the mouse to the lower right corner of that rectangle and release the button. That rectangle is now captured into the clipboard from which ctl-v will copy it anywhere you like.

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**Author:** ![md-2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@md-2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md-2000)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screen-captures-from-google-maps/957427/22 "2022-01-10T15:37:55Z")

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> [@Projammer](#):
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> I don’t think we’re talking apples and apples here. md-2000 was talking about taking multiple captures from Google Earth. ie. screencap the image. Scroll around until he’s over a new area with a shared edge from the original capture and screenshotting that. Rinse and repeat until he’s gotten the entire area he wants to see. Then pasting all the smaller images together into on large poster.
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> It’s a pain in the butt to get the edges lined up on the exact pixels so there’s not a visible seam in the finished image.

Exactly.

you can snip an area of Google maps that somewhat overlaps the previous snip(s), just don’t change the zoom. Then paste it into Paint, and you have the opportunity to drag it around until the image lines up as precisely as possible with previous pastes - so essentially manual stitching. (Due to the curvature of the earth, too large Google map shot montages won’t line up well.) Sometimes I use the arrow keys for the last final bit of adjustment To do the same with screenprint and cropping would require several iterations of Paint running, or a whole lot of intermediate files, etc.

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**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screen-captures-from-google-maps/957427/23 "2022-01-10T18:24:46Z")

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I was just wondering why you were doing it the hard way when there are so many tools that will do the legwork for you. Some of them for free.

[9 Best Photo Stitching Software Options in 2022](https://expertphotography.com/best-photo-stitching-software/)

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