My pea-brain says: place the .PNG images outside of the map.. (side_bar, above or atop the map) to allow the user to right-click the image and Save As
On Dec 18, 5:58 pm, Tim <[email protected]> wrote: > My Goal: allow users to save an image of the Google Map that is > embedded in my webpage. The user selects from many possible overlay > images (custom data imagery as PNG to be made available to public), > the overlay is shown on the map and I then need user to be able to > save the image to their computer. > > Problem: the Google Maps API does not provide "convert to static > image" functionality, and I am having trouble coming up with a way to > do it myself in an OS/browser independent way and without telling the > user "hey, if you're on ______ OS, do a screen capture or print to > file like ______." My best hope so far was to use the Google Static > Maps API, but including a custom GGroundOerlay and/or GScreenOverlay > is not appear to be supported (as far as I can tell). Please tell me > that I'm wrong!! > > Legal Issues > Since most posts on this topic seem stunted by the legal topic (the > Legal Notice, Terms of Use and Terms of Service for the API mention > restrictions on making copies), I want to mention that I have read > them over and it seems that as long as no fees are charged for any > distributed items that all is fine. The other clause being that no > more than 5,000 copies of sales material be printed. We have no > reason to assume our users would print anything other than for their > personal use. No sales. No fees. No marketing. > > A big thanks for any info. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
