Google Earth - Printing?

[wade moore]

I'm trying something in Google Earth and cannot quite get it to work right, I was wondering if anyone knows if what I want to do is even possible.

When you search for a location, you can go to "printable view" to see all of the results that came up for your search. What this does is opens up Google Maps with those locations all having the little letter bubble showing where they are.

I want to do this, but with a folder in "My Spaces". I have put about 20 locations into "My Spaces" and I want to print out a map that has them. Doing this through Google Earth would be completely unreadable, I want to do it in a view like Google Maps.

Anyone know if this is possible?

[Godzilla Blitz]

Ah, so you want to make all your Google Earth locations appear on one Google Map, instead of just one location appearing on the Map?

Offhand, I don't know an easy way to do this. I would think you could get two places to appear on the Google Map by using the directions feature, but that still leaves you far short of the 20 you're looking for.

I haven't messed with Google Earth for a while, but one thought that comes to mind would be to look at some of the overlays that exist for the program. There might be a "map overlay" or something like that, that replaces the Google Earth view with more traditional maps. You could activate the overlay, which would still show all your locations.

A quick Google search shows this, which is kind of the idea that I'm thinking of. Further searches may give you something that works better:
Google Earth Map Overlay (http://bernhard.sterzbach.de/googlemapsoverlay.html)

As an aside, rather than print what you get with this from Google Earth, which might look crappy, it might work better to take a screenshot from within Google Earth, then print that. But you could mess with this aspect if you get that far.

[wade moore]

Ah, so you want to make all your Google Earth locations appear on one Google Map, instead of just one location appearing on the Map?

Offhand, I don't know an easy way to do this. I would think you could get two places to appear on the Google Map by using the directions feature, but that still leaves you far short of the 20 you're looking for.

I haven't messed with Google Earth for a while, but one thought that comes to mind would be to look at some of the overlays that exist for the program. There might be a "map overlay" or something like that, that replaces the Google Earth view with more traditional maps. You could activate the overlay, which would still show all your locations.

A quick Google search shows this, which is kind of the idea that I'm thinking of. Further searches may give you something that works better:
Google Earth Map Overlay (http://bernhard.sterzbach.de/googlemapsoverlay.html)

As an aside, rather than print what you get with this from Google Earth, which might look crappy, it might work better to take a screenshot from within Google Earth, then print that. But you could mess with this aspect if you get that far.

Good advice, I'll check out the overlays.

The biggest problem, as I'm thinking you figured, is that the terrain to me makes the printed stuff just unreadable.

So yeah, you figured out what i was trying to do.. so conversely, if you knew of a google maps app (probably exists and I should do a google search for it) that allows you to put in more than 2 locations, that would work, I'd just have to recreate work (nothing major)...

Anyway, I'll look into the overlays - thanks!

[wade moore]

If anyone is interested...

I did a quick search and found www.communitywalk.com

I had to re-do my locations, but besides that it seems great... except it doesn't seem to have a print option so I'll have to do a print screen which is a pain, but works...

[Godzilla Blitz]

That looks like a neat little site. Nice find. I might be able to use the mapping feature in a few ways. Thanks.

Seems strange that it doesn't have a print option, though. That "export" tab doesn't allow you to save it as some kind of a file (jpeg, tiff)? When I pressed it, nothing happened, and then I figured I might have to register to get it to work, and then I gave up.

[wade moore]

That looks like a neat little site. Nice find. I might be able to use the mapping feature in a few ways. Thanks.

Seems strange that it doesn't have a print option, though. That "export" tab doesn't allow you to save it as some kind of a file (jpeg, tiff)? When I pressed it, nothing happened, and then I figured I might have to register to get it to work, and then I gave up.

Well, first thing that I should have noted is that it seems to have issues with some parts in firefox, so I had to load it up in ie.

Export just lets you get a link to that map or export (ironically) to Google Earth.