{"id":9037,"date":"2009-08-25T16:11:10","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T15:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/make-fantastic-wallpapers-using-google-maps\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:20:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:20:48","slug":"make-fantastic-wallpapers-using-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/make-fantastic-wallpapers-using-google-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Make fantastic wallpapers using Google Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google Maps<\/a> is incredibly useful, but it’s also got some fantastic aerial images of our planet. With a little effort you can grab these images and make great, high quality wallpapers or even print them. Here’s how to do that! You can do it in Windows or OSX, and you’ll need Firefox<\/a> with the Screengrab!<\/a> extension installed.<\/p>\n

First, go to Google Maps<\/a> and find the image you want. It’s best if you find it manually, and once you have, click Satellite, and turn of the labels, so your map is clean. Then click Link and copy the HTML code as below.<\/p>\n

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Now, open your text editor, like Notepad, and paste in the HTML. All you have to do is change the width and height values in the code – something much bigger than your screen, like 3000 x 3000 pixels – and then save it as “filename.html” .<\/p>\n

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Now, find this saved HTML file and drag it into Firefox. You should see the map open now! To save the entire image, click the Screengrab! icon, choose save and the ‘complete page\/frame’ option. Make sure to save the file somewhere you’ll remember. I chose suck a big size as the image is saved with navigation arrows in the top right corner, and saving a larger area than you need means you can edit this out.<\/p>\n

Now you’ll have a huge high quality image, that you can trim using any image editor and set as your wallpaper.<\/p>\n

[Via: OnSoftware DE<\/a>]
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Google Maps is incredibly useful, but it’s also got some fantastic aerial images of our planet. With a little effort you can grab these images and make great, high quality wallpapers or even print them. Here’s how to do that! You can do it in Windows or OSX, and you’ll need Firefox with the Screengrab! … Continue reading “Make fantastic wallpapers using Google Maps”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2346],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-9037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle-maps"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t