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Why are online maps so lame?

Googlemaps is great to search, zoom, and explore, but when you go to print, they cut the map down to half size, and half the page is blank. Waste!

Urg, anyone have any alternative? Mapquest appears similarly useless :dead:

Why don't you use greaseproof paper, lay it on top of the screen and copy the map with a pencil? :O:

Have you tried Print Screen->Paint->save an then printing it? No farking idea if it works, just yabbering. :shucks:

I did my maps via google earth. Well you need to put a little work into screenshots edit before applying picture to MS Word for printing but it can be done without too much efforts..

I already prepared my route maps in Kiel :)

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Originally Posted by Dowly (Post 1104105)

Have you tried Print Screen->Paint->save an then printing it? No farking idea if it works, just yabbering. :shucks:

Works fine, I have done that alot myself :) Only way I was able to get a full screen map picture myself from Google Maps.

Planing for your trip Neal?
Could always try one of these.
https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=135

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Originally Posted by Skybird (Post 1104104)

Why don't you use greaseproof paper, lay it on top of the screen and copy the map with a pencil? :O:

:har::har:

Join AAA :shucks: :yep:

Surely a man of your means can afford a sat nav and or a road atlas :o

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Originally Posted by jimbuna (Post 1104179)

Surely a man of your means can afford a sat nav and or a road atlas :o

He'll probably get a big piece of paper and some Crayola crayons and make his own map. :har:

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Originally Posted by Highbury (Post 1104136)

Works fine, I have done that alot myself :) Only way I was able to get a full screen map picture myself from Google Maps.

Good to know, I really had no clue if that would work. Just a quess. :up:

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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens (Post 1104090)

Kind of a toss-up for me ... more blank paper, yes - but less expensive ink used.

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Originally Posted by Skybird (Post 1104104)

Why don't you use greaseproof paper, lay it on top of the screen and copy the map with a pencil? :O:

Haha, ok. :D

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Originally Posted by Dowly (Post 1104105)

Have you tried Print Screen->Paint->save an then printing it? No farking idea if it works, just yabbering. :shucks:

Yeah, that works, takes a few steps, I wish Google would just fix it :shucks:

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Originally Posted by mr chris (Post 1104142)

Planing for your trip Neal?
Could always try one of these.
https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=135

Well, can you see me trying to navigate a motorcycle with that, I'd end up in a ditch for sure!:dead: Besides: $800 (gasp!)

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Originally Posted by FIREWALL (Post 1104175)

Join AAA :shucks: :yep:

Sorry, I'm a teetotaler.

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Originally Posted by jimbuna (Post 1104179)

Surely a man of your means can afford a sat nav and or a road atlas :o

Oh boy, somewhere I've given you the wrong impression about my means! :haha:

Sigh, I guess I will have to break down and buy some kind of map book for the US.

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Originally Posted by FIREWALL (Post 1104183)

He'll probably get a big piece of paper and some Crayola crayons and make his own map. :har:

ROFL! :haha:

I use a MUCH older version of a Tom Tom and get by just fine when I need to use it. I've tried Garmin and prefer the Tom Toms.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...ue&Order=PRICE

I suppose you'd have to pull over on a bike for a map anywho. :)

PD