Question: Is there a way to download a region from Google maps to a PDF or JPEG file? I would like to download as many zoom levels as possible so I can zoom in and out without being online. I need this for practical reasons when I will be traveling to remote China and I need detailed maps of certain provinces/counties.I will be browsing these maps on an iPod touch.

I only need the street information, so only the "map" part of gmaps.

Answer: 
There is possibility to download the Google Maps by free software like Terra Incognita ([link](https://sourceforge.net/p/terraincognita2/wiki/Home/)). It can be georeferenced and tiled raster format (GeoTIFF or JPG).

[![Terra Incognita 2.0](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bjKmh.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bjKmh.png)

Instruction ([link](https://sourceforge.net/p/terraincognita2/wiki/save_tutorial/)):

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> ```
> 1. Select area which is interesting for you
>     ◦ you can use menu 'selection' to switch to selection mode
>     ◦ or you can hold Ctrl key to create selection various ways how to create selection is described later
> 2. Select map source from menu
>     ◦ this can be done also before selecting area
> 3. Zoom up to resolution which you want to have used in saved map
>     ◦ you can select resolution in menu 'zoom levels' list
>     ◦ or you can click to map to zoom up until your detail level is reached
> 4. Go to menu 'file' and select 'save map'
>     ◦ you don't need to wait until map is saved, save operation will continue on background
>     ◦ if you want to save various maps for the same area you must continue on step 2.
> 5. Go to menu 'selection' and select 'clear selection'
>     ◦ this will remove selection and remove dimmed layer
> 
> ```
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Also try Google Maps Downloader from <http://www.bigeastsolutions.com/index.html>
You can download Google satellite maps