Printing google maps

[Micky]

As much as 20 years ago, people I knew were printing maps off the web,
but I only had a B&W printer and they didn't look very good.

Now I finally have a late model color printer and I've printed a
couple in the last week, and the whole map is dim, so dim I can't see
the small streets in a room lit with lamps, and I probably need a
magnifying glass. The text that I typed as an introduction to the
maps looks just fine, perfect.

And everything looks fine on the monitor.

(And things other than maps print perfectly in color.)

How do I make the printed streets of the map as dark as they are on
the monitor?

Is another Mapquest or something else better for this?

[Good Guy]

I just tried printing something from Google Maps and it works just fine at my end.  I am on Windows 10 and I use HP LaserJet CP2025.

Have you tried printing to a pdf file to see if it looks OK?  If it does then you can print that pdf file.  If you don't have pdf creator then on Windows 10 there is what is called "Print to Microsoft PDF".  It is identical to any pdf file creator free or premium.

Perhaps you can post a link of the map which doesn't print properly for us to try it.

There are other streetmap sites but it depends on where are you based.  London people can use:


http://www.streetmap.co.uk/

https://www.mapquest.co.uk/

[Mayayana]

| How do I make the printed streets of the map as dark as they are on
| the monitor?
|

Google has options in their maps API for what
they call gamma, which is saturation, but I don't
know whether it can be controlled via the
Google maps website.

Another option would be to save the image
and edit it in a graphic program before printing.
If you don't have a graphic editor you can use
IrfanView on Windows. Menu -> Image ->
Color Corrections. Just play around with the
sliders until it looks good. You probably want
a little more saturation and a little less
brightness.

[Paul in Houston, TX]

Print sreen, dump to Irfan, auto adjust, print.
Been doing that for years because online maps don't print well.
Mapquest is garbage. Use Bing maps for 45 degree angles
and Google for aerial close ups.
Bing is about 5 years out of date, Google is about 2 years out of date.
I use them almost daily for work.

[WaltS48]

Have you tried <https://www.openstreetmap.org/> ?

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[Keith Nuttle]

On 5/25/2016 8:18 AM, WaltS48 wrote:
> On 05/24/2016 08:13 PM, Micky wrote:
>> As much as 20 years ago, people I knew were printing maps off the web,
>> but I only had a B&W printer and they didn't look very good.
>>
>> Now I finally have a late model color printer and I've printed a
>> couple in the last week, and the whole map is dim, so dim I can't see
>> the small streets in a room lit with lamps, and I probably need a
>> magnifying glass. The text that I typed as an introduction to the
>> maps looks just fine, perfect.
>>
>> And everything looks fine on the monitor.
>>
>> (And things other than maps print perfectly in color.)
>>
>> How do I make the printed streets of the map as dark as they are on
>> the monitor?
>>
>> Is another Mapquest or something else better for this?
>
> Have you tried <https://www.openstreetmap.org/> ?
>

You did say Google maps, I have found that people use the webpage Google
maps and Google Earth interchangeable though they are different

Using Google Earth, I have not seen what you are seeing. Whether I
print the map or do a screen print (PRTSC), I get an image as good as
the original screen.

I use Google Earth as I can add pins to the map, that are saved and
transferable to other computers that I or a friend are using.

[Micky]

On Wed, 25 May 2016 08:47:08 -0400, Keith Nuttle
<keith_...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>On 5/25/2016 8:18 AM, WaltS48 wrote:
>> On 05/24/2016 08:13 PM, Micky wrote:
>>> As much as 20 years ago, people I knew were printing maps off the web,
>>> but I only had a B&W printer and they didn't look very good.
>>>
>>> Now I finally have a late model color printer and I've printed a
>>> couple in the last week, and the whole map is dim, so dim I can't see
>>> the small streets in a room lit with lamps, and I probably need a
>>> magnifying glass. The text that I typed as an introduction to the
>>> maps looks just fine, perfect.
>>>
>>> And everything looks fine on the monitor.
>>>
>>> (And things other than maps print perfectly in color.)
>>>
>>> How do I make the printed streets of the map as dark as they are on
>>> the monitor?
>>>
>>> Is another Mapquest or something else better for this?
>>
>> Have you tried <https://www.openstreetmap.org/> ?

No, but I will.

>>
>You did say Google maps, I have found that people use the webpage Google
>maps and Google Earth interchangeable though they are different

Yes, I did say Google maps and I don't use that as the same as Earth.

A couple years ago when I used GEarth it was a big,separate program
that I had to install, and it it would crash XP for me.

Now I'm using Vista, which is a lot like 7, and I've lost track of
Google Earth.

>
>Using Google Earth, I have not seen what you are seeing. Whether I
>print the map or do a screen print (PRTSC), I get an image as good as
>the original screen.

That would be a lot less work than copying each page to Irafanview,
even if it was automatic.

>I use Google Earth as I can add pins to the map, that are saved and
>transferable to other computers that I or a friend are using.

I used Google Earth because it provided elevation, and I had a
short-lived interest in that.

This reminds me that reading about Chinese claims to the area near the
Philipines specified the line of longitude they said they said was the
borderline, but I don't know of any computer map that gives lines of
lat. or long. Do you? Of course paper atlases usually
do, and my globe does, though that's too small for many purposes.

[Dave Pyles]

Google earth provides longitude and latitude information at the position
of the cursor and, if you turn on the grid, as a grid.
Dave Pyles

[Good Guy]

On 25/05/2016 01:13, Micky wrote:

Another option is, of course, Microsoft Maps!!!

<https://www.bing.com/mapspreview>

[Micky]

On Wed, 25 May 2016 13:42:26 -0400, Dave Pyles <dnp...@user.invalid>
wrote:

Wow. I got to look into that. Tonight.

[Paul in Houston, TX]

WaltS48 wrote:
> On 05/24/2016 08:13 PM, Micky wrote:
>>
>> Is another Mapquest or something else better for this?
>
> Have you tried <https://www.openstreetmap.org/> ?

Nice!
Thanks Walt.

[Micky]

On Tue, 24 May 2016 20:13:10 -0400, Micky
<NONONObobb...@gmail.com> wrote:

>As much as 20 years ago, people I knew were printing maps off the web,
>but I only had a B&W printer and they didn't look very good.
>
>Now I finally have a late model color printer and I've printed a
>couple in the last week, and the whole map is dim, so dim I can't see
>the small streets in a room lit with lamps, and I probably need a
>magnifying glass. The text that I typed as an introduction to the
>maps looks just fine, perfect.

It turns out that other than other parts of google afaik, google maps
has a way to make complaints and suggestions. Click on the menu icon
to the left of the field for inserting location, and then click two
more levels

I complained about how dim, how light, all but the major streets
print, I pointed out that there were a lot of complaints about this
ing google, and I told them I was sure they were clever enough to make
the file that prints different from the file that displays, so it
would print better.

I also complained that, unlike old google maps, many features were
missing, including the ability to remove satellite view street
tracing, which puts a wide translucent grey line on top of major
roads, partially obscuring the actual road. And no way to get rid
of the icons for stores, buildings, shopping centers, which, while
they seem in map view to try to place where they don't obscure a
streen, in satellite view, they don't know what the user wants to look
at, and I'm sure it will eventually cover things I want to see, if I
can't turn labels etc. off.