Thread: gMapMaker v0.7.3.2 Map Tile Downloader for Windows by Damien Debin

gMapMaker

gMapMaker is a great tool you can use to download digital imagery for an area.

It can download imagery from Google, Yahoo, MSN, OpenStreetMap etc.

A word of caution while downloading imager from Google is that Google may block your IP address for a few hours if the number of image download requests coming from your computer exceed a certain frequency. Yahoo, MSN and OSM have no such issues.

It downloads the images as small jpeg or png files. These files are then merged up to give you a complete image file.

A plus point of this software is that it also can create an .MAP (OziExplorer format file with the images embedded in it. This OziExplorer file can be used in GPSMapEdit directly without the need of Google Images via internet meaning you dont need a registered version of GPSMapEdit.

Code:

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it's a self-extracting zip archive. You need to have .[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]installed for the program to work.
The program is easy to use and has the functionality of the previous MapTileCacher.pl and MapTileFE.pl scripts. It can only download map tiles from Google for now, but support for other sources will be added soon. To use it, follow these steps:
Install gMapMaker. When the installation is complete the application should start automatically.

Choose one of the following two:
batch download: Open your browser, navigate to [Only registered and activated users can see links. ], select the area you want to download. Click Generate and save the .map file on your computer. Back in gMapMaker, select "MGMaps mode, use a .map file" as the operating mode then click "Go" and select the .map file saved.

single area/zoom: Enter the coords, select the zoom level and map type for the area to download. Make sure the cache folder path ends with "MGMapsCache". Make sure you have selected "MGMaps mode, use entered area" as the operating mode. Click "Go".
When the download is ready, you'll find all the map tiles in the selected MGMapsCache folder. Just copy this folder with all its subfolders to your memory card and configure MGMaps to use it. Move the map in MGMaps to the area/zoom level you downloaded map tiles for - use Menu->Go To and enter the coordinates, zoom level and map type.

The application can also use a set of proxies for satellite imagery download in order to avoid having your IP address temp-banned by Google (which happens if you download many satellite tiles in a short time).
UPDATE: To improve proxy functionality in gMapMaker, [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] (successor of FreeCap) works perfectly... or anyway better than the integrated proxy support. UPDATE 2: You can try installing [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

It captures all your gMapMaker traffic, you should then be able to configure fiddler to redirect all it's traffic through another proxy.