Copying images from Google maps

[Bass]

Looking for some advice please people. I've stuck it in here cos it's related to navigation (sort of).
As some of you already know, I have been rewriting the report from the Oz trip that Ducatijim and I did earlier this year, with a view to getting it printed and bound for my own personal posterity.
I thought I had finished until someone pointed out to me that it would benefit from the inclusion of some maps - a comment I had to agree with - bugger.
Anyway, I have been drawing some lines on maps in Googlemaps and stuffing them in the trip report. It works quite well and the detail is OK but I am not happy with the resolution of the finished result. In fact the clarity, while OK I guess, detracts from the rest of the document.
I have been using the printscreen command and then pasting into the word file.
So my question is this - does anyone out there know of a way to uplift images from Googlemaps and put them in a Word document, that will give a better resolution than the method I have been using?

[Gremlin]

while using printscreen, are you then cropping all the unneeded stuff out?

Another option, but it would be quite similar I think, is to paste the screenshot into Paint (standard windows app under accessories) and re-select what you need, copy, and paste into word?

[chocobo_ff]

Anyway, I have been drawing some lines on maps in Googlemaps and stuffing them in the trip report. It works quite well and the detail is OK but I am not happy with the resolution of the finished result. In fact the clarity, while OK I guess, detracts from the rest of the document.
I have been using the printscreen command and then pasting into the word file.
So my question is this - does anyone out there know of a way to uplift images from Googlemaps and put them in a Word document, that will give a better resolution than the method I have been using?

Have a look at this link, it gives a comparison of the different Google Earth versions. Maybe you should try the trial version of Google Earth Pro which apparently lets you save images at a higher resolution?

Oh, and when saving images, save them as .png and NOT .jpg

[Bass]

while using printscreen, are you then cropping all the unneeded stuff out?

Yep

Another option, but it would be quite similar I think, is to paste the screenshot into Paint (standard windows app under accessories) and re-select what you need, copy, and paste into word?

Tried that first but it's simpler (important for me as you know Alan) to put it straight into Word and crop it there. End result much the same

Have a look at this link, it gives a comparison of the different Google Earth versions. Maybe you should try the trial version of Google Earth Pro which apparently lets you save images at a higher resolution?

Oh, and when saving images, save them as .png and NOT .jpg

I shall have a look and give it a go, but I am working from home on my wife's machine and it's pretty slow on a good day. It has to think pretty hard when I feed it Google Earth.
Thanks for the help guys