Google Maps Drawing Tools Position

Assuming there isn't a ground why it has to equal the Google-copyrighted maps you use, I'd role OpenStreetMap for this (the open source wikipedia-manner Google Maps alternative).

They'atomic number 75 virtually identical simply their license (Creative Commons Ascription-Sharealike) expressly allows this sort of thing including for commercial function, so long American Samoa they're attributable and you share the work you make with their data under the same licence, whereas Google are strict about employment of their maps unless you pay for an expensive license.

You can too output vectors, but the downside is, as is ofttimes the case with open source stuff, it's not slick and takes empiric to get IT all working...

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Delete: the earlier version of this answer recommended victimization Susceptible Street Mapping (OSM)'s export to PDF and SVG tools. I'd now urge against fighting with these: they'atomic number 75 junk. Not only are the files produced a mess (see edit history for examples - and the latest don't plane open for ME), but the tools almost never work, weakness with a hopelessly misleading error message about "server load" being too high-altitude (<25), recommending trying once again in few minutes - but the server load is always ALIR over 25 except for a few hours in European night metre (and even then not all years).

There's a wiki with loads of alternate options, but all of these I've tried either don't work (many of them), don't work for anything exclude a close up of a couple of streets (MapOSMatic), render granular pel images in a PDF rather than effective vectors (Field Papers and Marching orders), or where the "initiation" process is more like configuring an uncastrated server (most of them)...

There is nevertheless one process which seems to work:

1. Install Maperitive (free, simple put in on Windows, requires a dependency on Mac / Linux).
2. Export the area of the map out you want from Open Street Map out. You might need to use one of the alternate links if it says the area is overly large. Warning: for any area large than a small town, files sizes are absurd. County level is 300mbs+. Countries will be many gigabytes. It gives you every single gratuitous detail at all zoom level below the area you specify, and there seems to be no facility to change this. Understandably No-one at OSM has ever heard of county maps, country maps or neighborhood maps.
3. Open it in Maperitive. You might need to change the charge extension to .osm ahead it'll open
4. Change the version rules (what it shows and how) to ones which aren't insane.
   • You can get something pretty decent with Map > Switch to rules > googlemaps
   • Surgery, there's a vast amount of customisation you tail do if you have the patience to tinker with the code with Map > Edit rendering rules
5. Use Map > Ready impression bounds to set the area you want (it creates a near-hidden box filling the screen out: surg out and/or drag in from a corner), and View > zoom to set the zoom level. Everything away of the "printing bounds" will be cropped.
6. Exportation it with Tools > Export As SVG (Adobe Illustrator)

Note that if you want existent vectors you must download then open the export from OSM quite than just browsing around in the default represent that shows when you load Maperitive - else it'll give you a fake SVG full of shredded up soft quality bitmap tiles.

Another note - sometimes it doesn't really update the data file. If the file isn't changing, make true you don't have IT assimilative in anything, and wait a few minutes between exporting and opening.

Google Maps Drawing Tools Position

Source: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/15970/how-to-create-an-outlined-drawing-of-a-map-or-easily-turn-a-google-maps-screensh