Google Satellite Maps Retriever is a tool that help you to get small tile satellite images from google maps. All downloaded small images are saved on the disk. You can view downloaded maps by Maps Viewer Or you can combine them into a big BMP map by Maps Combiner.

How to Use?

1, Enter a task name, such like "Mytask.gsm". All task files are saved as *.gsm.
If you want to continue a old task, click button "Open task... ".

2, Drag the trackbar to define the zoom level. The zoom level defines the image precision. For trial version, the max zoom level is 12, so you can not download high precision images.

3, There are 4 parameters (Left Longitude, Right Longitude, Top Latitude, Bottom Latitude) to define the area scope of images that you want to download.

Left Longitude: -180<value<180, for East, the value is positive, for West, the value is negative.
Right Longitude:-180<value<180, for East, the value is positive, for West, the value is negative.
Top Latitude:-90<value<90,for North, the value is positive,for South, the value is negative.
Bottom Latitude:-90<value<90,for North, the value is positive,for South, the value is negative.

For longitude and latitude, the input measurement is degree. You can convert the measurement of "Degrees, Minutes,Seconds" to "Degrees" by click menu "Tools->Convert 'Degrees,Minutes,Seconds' to 'Degrees'...".

4, Select a path to save the project and downloaded images

5, Define how many threads you want to start to download at the same time. The max threads number is 8.

6, Then click button "Start", OK, start downloading now ... !

When downloading, the log window will display the downloading process. When finished, the log will be saved to a file.

OS: Windows 95/98/2000/XP/2003/vista
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