Posting map screenshots

MrBob · 11-25-2012, 06:31 PM

I think it's really cool when there are screen shots of routes on Google maps posted in Ride Reports.
How is that done? I'd love to ad those to my RR's.
Need any instructions to be Mac friendly.

SYDADVGS · 11-25-2012, 08:03 PM

Do a screenshot or screen area selection and save it in your photo hosting site and link it from there.

MrBob · 11-26-2012, 12:43 PM

Okay, figured out how to post screen shots of Google maps and when I used major routes the purple lines are included.
I haven't figured out how to post routes that I've taken on secondary roads.

chrome bandit · 12-02-2012, 04:01 PM

...then make sure you've signed up for SPOTWALLA, which is a) free; b) keeps your trip for enternity (or until their server funding runs out); c) enables you to track routing on a map so you can embed into posts like this...

SPOT is not free, of course, SPOTWALLA is.

If not SPOT enabled, you can simply draw over a screen capture of a map using a photo editor or PowerPoint or Paint, do another screen capture after you've done your route guidance, save to JPG file, then publish to a photo hosting site and insert it into a forum message.

11-25-2012, 06:31 PM	#1
MrBob ^OP Careening forward Joined: Oct 2005 Location: Santa Fe, N.M. Oddometer: 5,737	Posting map screenshots I think it's really cool when there are screen shots of routes on Google maps posted in Ride Reports. How is that done? I'd love to ad those to my RR's. Need any instructions to be Mac friendly. __________________ 2003 KLX 400R dual sport MrBob screwed with this post 11-25-2012 at 08:17 PM

11-26-2012, 12:43 PM	#3
MrBob ^OP Careening forward Joined: Oct 2005 Location: Santa Fe, N.M. Oddometer: 5,737	Okay, figured out how to post screen shots of Google maps and when I used major routes the purple lines are included. I haven't figured out how to post routes that I've taken on secondary roads. __________________ 2003 KLX 400R dual sport

12-02-2012, 04:01 PM	#4
chrome bandit Wide footed adventurer Joined: Oct 2009 Location: Seattle-ish Oddometer: 258	If SPOT enabled... ...then make sure you've signed up for SPOTWALLA, which is a) free; b) keeps your trip for enternity (or until their server funding runs out); c) enables you to track routing on a map so you can embed into posts like this... SPOT is not free, of course, SPOTWALLA is. If not SPOT enabled, you can simply draw over a screen capture of a map using a photo editor or PowerPoint or Paint, do another screen capture after you've done your route guidance, save to JPG file, then publish to a photo hosting site and insert it into a forum message. __________________ Seattle-Deadhorse-Homer-Inside Passage 2011 Hells Canyon 2012 WABDR 2012 How to embed Excel/PPT/Word docs in ADV Blog: http://terra.incognita.ws

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11-25-2012, 08:03 PM	#2
SYDADVGS . Joined: Jul 2007 Location: Sydney Australia Oddometer: 12,163	Do a screenshot or screen area selection and save it in your photo hosting site and link it from there.