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About
Gmapcatcher is another offline viewer of google maps. I write this because the maintainer of Ogmaps doesn't update his code for a long time, while google map's web page changes a lot.
Ogmaps is google code project that can catch google map and view them with your browser. Unfortunately, because of the changes of google map's java script program and the disinterest of the ogmaps' author, it doesn't work now. So I have to write another off line google map viewer. I build gui interface and write a downloading tool so that it can be used more easily. Gmapcatcher doesn't depend on google-map's java scripts so it should work even if google changes them again.
Download
$ svn checkout http://gmapcatcher.googlecode.com/svn/trunk gmapcatcher
Usage
maps.py is a gui program used to browse google map. With the offline toggle button unchecked, it can download google map tiles automatically. Once the file downloaded, it will reside on user's hard disk and needn't to be downloaded again any more. At release 0.02, it use multi-threaded downloader and can be faster.
download.py is a downloader tools that can be used to download google map's tiles without gui. maps can use files it downloaded without configuration.
Below is an example using download.py:
$ download.py --location="Paris, France" --max-zoom-level=16 --min-zoom-level=0 --latrange=2.0 --lngrange=2.0
Files
$HOME/.googlemaps/*
Author
pi3orama@gmail.com