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General Category => Using The Maps/Garmin Software => Topic started by: ODX on September 28, 2011, 09:00:48 AM

Title: save route to jpg
Post by: ODX on September 28, 2011, 09:00:48 AM
Het Everyone

Tried to find the answer and just figured it was easier to ask the question.

I have some property for sale in southern Utah, I would like to be able to map a route from a major highway near the property to the property itself. Now making the route is easy of course but I would like to save it as a .jpg so that I can email it to perspective buyers since I can't always make it out there to show them because of time restraints and being 2.5 hrs away

How can I do this?

thanks in advance
Title: Re: save route to jpg
Post by: Seldom on September 28, 2011, 09:43:19 AM
Where in southern UT?  Got water rights?
I suggest you create your route in MapSource/BaseCamp, make a screenshot (On a PC shift-PrtScrn), paste the image into a photo editor and save it as a JPG.
Title: Re: save route to jpg
Post by: ODX on September 28, 2011, 09:58:25 AM
its outside of Cedar city about 30 miles west in a little desert town of newcastle, no water rights

here's a link to the KSL ad...

http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=218&ad=17407776&cat=342

thanks for the reply I will give that a try
Title: Re: save route to jpg
Post by: ODX on September 28, 2011, 10:10:14 AM
worked great thank you very much  :)
Title: Re: save route to jpg
Post by: Boyd on September 28, 2011, 10:11:45 AM
If you're using Windows Vista or Windows 7, just use the Snipping Tool (look under "accessories"). It's capable of taking screenshots of either the whole window or a user-defined rectangle. You can save it as either .jpg or .png but I have found the .jpg files are poor quality and you'll get cleaner results with .png.

But for your application, I wonder if e-mailing them a link to the property on Google Maps wouldn't be more practical since it would allow the prospective buyer to create their own directions from their current location.
Title: Re: save route to jpg
Post by: Seldom on September 28, 2011, 04:12:16 PM
Nice to know about the snipping tool.