The browser version of Google Maps works ok on Windows Phone especially on a large screen device like the Lumia 1520 but it’s slow to navigate around and there is no offline support. Google don’t make any apps for Windows Phone apart from a lacklustre search app so if you want to use Google services on a Windows Phone you are going to have to use the browser or a 3 rd party app (see my guide to using Google Play Music on Windows Phone). The default Windows Phone maps has improved vastly over the last few years and Nokia’s HERE maps are very good but the one thing I use Google Maps for on Android is looking at real time traffic data especially when I am looking at the best route home plus I often use Street View. Google Satellite Maps Downloader is both fast and easy to use which makes it a good solution for retrieving satellite images.When moving from Android to Windows Phone one of the apps I missed was Google Maps. It takes about a minute to download a one square degree map and the merge operation requires only a few seconds. The application requires insignificant resources to run and has no impact on the computer performance even when downloading or merging images. It can help you specify the map area that you want to download. If an item cannot be downloaded, its details are saved in the log and you can retry to download it later.Īn additional tool is the Coordinates Converter that enables you to transform the latitude and longitude to decimal degrees. The download manager supports multiple threads and can retrieve all the items from the area unattended. You do not need to use complicated editing software or waste time aligning the files since the entire operation only takes a few seconds depending on the number of images. The application can combine the downloaded files into a single bitmap file that can be used in other applications.
It is able to read the project file and arrange the image tiles in order to view the entire map. However, if you want to browse the images as a map you need to use the Satellite Images Viewer included in the application. The images are saved on the local hard drive as JPG files that can be opened with any compatible viewer. You are able to specify the latitude and longitude range as well as the zoom level in the project parameters. You just need to specify the area by entering the geographical coordinates in the main window. The program functions as download manager that can retrieve the maps from a certain area with minimum effort and in a short time interval.
You can use this tool if you want to browse the images on your computer when you are not online or use the maps for geodetic surveys. Google Satellite Maps Downloader is a convenient tool that allows you to download satellite maps from the Google Maps service.
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