Editing downloaded satellite pics

arclight

arclight

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Wonder if someone can help.

I want to save a satelitte picture from a mapping website with the aim of writing/drawing on it so I can give directions for people to find features on the picture.
When I save satpics from the web they are all .htm files and neither PSE7 or Paint can open them for editing.

Can anyone suggest a way to tackle this?

TIA
 
.htm is a webpage format (same as .html, like .jpeg and .jpg are the same AFAIK) so it's a bit odd they are saved as that. Are you sure you can't copy the image out of the webpage?
 
RacingSnake said:
or, if you really struggle use print screen (PrtScn).
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or given the continuous debates on here about stealing images and copyright infringment you could contact the owner of said satellitte image and ask them for permission to use it and an origional to edit?
 
.htm is a webpage format (same as .html, like .jpeg and .jpg are the same AFAIK) so it's a bit odd they are saved as that. Are you sure you can't copy the image out of the webpage?

or, if you really struggle use print screen (PrtScn).

Both of these result in an .htm file being saved.
 
a1ex2001 said:
contact the owner of said satellitte image and ask them for permission to use it
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:agree:

This is why many companies either simply have a line drawn map of their location and surrounding streets, that they've created themselves or hired somebody to create for them, on their brochures and websites. Or they link to the Google Maps page or whatever.
 
Got a link to the page? What happens if you right click the image, can you choose save?
 
Steep said:
Got a link to the page? What happens if you right click the image, can you choose save?
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Get nothing on R/click.

All the common map sites, Multimap, Google, Streetview are exactly the same when aerial or satpics are the option..

However, I found an answer.

FireShot - It's a Firefox add on. Lets you save a webpage in a variety of formats.

What a hassle. Only wanted to show a couple of folk directions to my house.

Thanks all.
 
arclight said:
What a hassle. Only wanted to show a couple of folk directions to my house.
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So email them a link to google maps? If you enter a location (your address), you can get a link that includes the address you entered. Put it through biSPAM to get a short URL and email it to them.

Then they can click it and get complete directions from their front door to yours.
 
arclight said:
.htm is a webpage format (same as .html, like .jpeg and .jpg are the same AFAIK) so it's a bit odd they are saved as that. Are you sure you can't copy the image out of the webpage?

or, if you really struggle use print screen (PrtScn).

Both of these result in an .htm file being saved.
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In which case there is probably an overlay over the page or a bit of code to stop you taking the image...

Which means the owner obviously doesn't want you to take the image so best to either contact them or use something else.:p
 
Kaouthia & neil g ................ thanks - never knew I could do that.
 
I've used FastStone Capture. Go to google maps like said and click on the link button, then click 'customise and preview embedded map'. Change the custom width to almost the same number of pixels as your screen and the height to whatever (for example 5000 pixels). Then use FastStone Capture, move mouse over the map section (red border shows area to capture) and it automatically vertically scrolls the screen for you, taking several images as it does so and automatically merges them together into one single image.

There's a tutorial on the web out there somewhere about using FS Capture as well. You can repeat this process several times, then stitch them together to create massive images. I made one of over 30,000 x 30,000 pixels and about a 2GB file size. Photoshop CS4 64Bit on an i7 machine with 6GB ram and it was crawling though lol.

HTH.:)
 
If you need ariel photographs they can be obtain legally from www.getmapping.com

a website that my colleugues use reguarly for that very purpose, low res images are cheap as well.
 
click prtsc, then go into photoshop and click create new... this should then open up a new window the same size as your screen.

ctrl+V to paste the screen dump into the new page... crop it, flatten the layers...

You should now have a map you can draw on.

i wouldnt worry about copyright, your not exactly selling maps, your just making some directions for friends.
 
evilonion said:
i wouldnt worry about copyright, your not exactly selling maps, your just making some directions for friends.
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Yeah, screw the law. The thing is, it's easier for him just to send a link to the destination on Google maps than it is to faff around doing this anyway.
 
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