Alex Feldman wrote: > Hi, > > I have limited experience with Gimp, almost all of it with photographs, > and essentially none with Inkscape. I want to make some simple maps of > trails in the area, and mark them with mileages and a few comments. My > plan was to download the photographs of the area from Google Earth, put > a layer over it, and trace out the trails. Then I can stretch or shrink > the image and add the decorations and commentary. > > My question is, which is the best tool for this? Or is there a better > way to do it than what I am describing? Thanks for the help. > > Wouldn't it be better to build your overlays in Google Earth? Then you could save the kml data for later use or uploading to the web. What you are suggesting would work, but the "best" solution would be to use GIS software for this task. There are a number of open source and freeware GIS tools, the biggest problem is that in general they are not designed to directly access the Google data. That can be worked around, but probably is more work than you are interested in, unless you expect to do more mapping applications. When you say you want to "download the photographs" do you mean using the Google map api, or taking screenshots of a Google Earth view? Or are you using one of the pay versions of GE (I think these offer more options, but haven't investigated).
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