Saving google map as static image

[dchard]

Is there a way to save the image of a location in google map as static? is there any other way to do it?

Thanks in advance

[Newsgroup_User]

> Is there a way to save the image of a location in google map as static? is there any other way to do it?
>
> Thanks in advance

I think the first step is to google "google sitemap coldfusion" and see
what other people have already done. That way you probably won't need to
reinvent the wheel.

--
Adam

[Newsgroup_User]

dchard wrote:
> Is there a way to save the image of a location in google map as static? is there any other way to do it?

not quite sure what you mean but technically if you want to capture the image of
a google map use the static API:

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/

and cf8's imageNew() or <cfImage action="read"> to capture the map image &
imageWrite() or <cfImage action="write"> to write the image file to your server.

legally, not sure this is OK w/google maps' TOS:

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/terms.html

though i guess maybe if you were doing this to improve your app's performance it
might be ok???

[dchard]

I've read the terms of google in using their map. I'm thinking if I can just save the longitudes and latitudes of each marker and save it in the database, then when that user login it will get all the coordinates of their marker and mark it on the map. Is that possible?

[JR__Bob__Dobbs-qSBHQ2]

Google Maps and Google Earth support using XML ,the KML format, to add custom points other features to maps. This might help you to add points from your database to a map, but not to save the map image.

http://code.google.com/apis/kml/