Ultimate Maps Downloader

Ultimate Maps Downloader is a professional software application whose purpose is to help you download satellite imagery, topographic and road maps from various online providers, such as Google, Bing, Yahoo!, ArcGIS, or OpenStreetMap. The tool lets you grab small tiles and combine them into one big image for offline viewing.

It comes packed with many dedicated parameters which are neatly organized in multiple tabs: Home, Map, Location, and Markers and Routes. You need to take some time and experiment with the built-in features in order to make the most out of this utility.

Ultimate Maps Downloader gives you the possibility to zoom in or out of the map, view information about the selected location on the map (latitude and longitude coordinates), zoom to a user-defined location, copy the information about the location to the clipboard, and add markers.

What’s more, you may insert places of interests (POIs) on the map by assigning to each one a name and icon and altering the latitude and longitude data, find nearest venues and tips from Foursquare, as well as create a route by specifying the start point and adding additional points to the route.

Other notable characteristics worth being mentioned enable you to measure distances from one selected point on the map to another and calculate routes.

Downloading capabilities

The app lets you define the exact geographical coordinates for the two opposite corners, download the selected area, choose the desired servers (e.g. Google Hybrid, Bing Satellite, Yahoo! Road Map), pick the zoom level, provide a name the map, as well as alter the latitude and longitude values for the first and second corners.

You can export the map to JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, or BMP file format, select the saving directory, set up file naming rules, combine all tiles in a large map photo, save the downloaded tiles to the disk, change the size of the tiles, create ESRI Word files (JGW) for each downloaded image/tile, as well as generate a plain text file with the latitude and longitude coordinates for each tile.

Ultimate Maps Downloader allows you to save the current map project to XML file format so you can import it in the future, print or copy the map to the clipboard, import/export data from/to GPX file format, and perform search operations by the name of a custom location or coordinates.

The tool comes packed with several tweaking parameters that help you pick the default map server from a drop-down list (e.g. Bing, Yahoo!, OpenStreetMap), activate the walking mode, avoid highways, use the route, geocoder and place mark cache, as well as enable Google China maps as a map source.

Ultimate Maps Downloader comprises a rich suite of advanced features for helping you download maps from various servers and work with handy tools for managing routes, markers, ESRI files, POIs, as well as venues and tips from Foursquare.