You will probably run into some difficulty obtaining the map from Google. It looks like their main map image is actually comprised of multiple images arranged on a grid with another set of transparent images on top.

You may be better off using the @ASynchShell() command in a command button to send search criteria from your form to the browser address bar and then select print from your browser.

An example of this would look like (BOLD indicates user modifiable information, GREEN indicates hardcoded values, BLUE indicates elements on your form):

CommandButton :: OnElementEntry
var vDo as Int
     vDo = @AsynchShell("http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=From+YourAddress,+YourLocation,+YourState+to+" + ToAddress + ",+" + ToCity + ",+" + ToState)

lksseven,

Try this. Bring up a Google Map of a location, then save the map image to your hard drive.



Were you able to do it without taking a screenshot of your screen and cropping out everything but the visible part of the map?

Hi Erica,

I managed to contort Yahoo maps into letting me make a copy of the map image to my hard drive.  

But, if the thrust is to save a map for each client, and then link to it in an image box ... not really manageable for what I would like to do - I'd love to have the program go grab the map off the net, based upon the client's current address (enough of them move from time to time that 2 years from now enough of the static saved (now inaccurate) images would prove more of a detriment than a help).  

Thanks though!!!

Mark,
         I can only wish I had enough business to make the $10,000 yearly fee doable.  Guess I'll chalk that up to a good idea stillborn.

Larry

Mark,

I tried that and it worked !   I then tried it with some .jpg files from my website and it didn't work.  Then I tried it with some .jpg files from my computer ( file:///d:/data/.../x.jpg ) and it wouldn't pull the image into the box unless I first copied the file to the sesame directory.   I know I can add a directory to rootdirs.ini for the stuff on my computer, but don't understand why other url's didn't work.

Thanks.  Larry

Mark,

How cool is that!  Thanks!  I'll tinker with that.

I had concocted a technique of searching google for an address, such as "800 S. Tucker, Tulsa, OK map"  and it would bring up a thumbnail map.  I would then right click on the map, choose "copy image URL", and then paste that into a Sesame field in the client record.  Then when a sales order is created for that client, Sesame would read the image url and go get it and plug it into an image field in the sales order.  But Google subsequently changed their scheme for map images somehow, and the later image URL's would not work in Sesame.  So I just took to copying the thumbnail map image and saving it to the Sesame server directory, and using the field string .\maps\clientid.jpg  to pull up the image.  Sesame will send me an email alert if a customer's address changes, so that I am notified to update the map image.

Here is the old Google url schema that works in Sesame:  http://www.google.com/mapdata?CxWooycCHZ75R_og____________AQwtqKMnAjWe-Uf6QI4CSL...

Here is the newer Google url schema that doesn't work in Sesame:  http://mt0.google.com/vt/data=LtgX-e3f8ctI3U5dJtbt7EJ1ZfRneYme,_JtvVDM8f0rANa7Lu...

Yes. On the link I posted toward the bottom, there is a section on adding "markers" to the image.

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Entirely doable.While playing with it, I added a zoom feature using command buttons. You could easily add buttons that scroll the center point using the lat/long centering.

Additionally, Google also provides a chart/graph system that is also extremely easy to set up and use in Sesame.