PS_Bramus.GoogleMapsTileCutter

Photoshop Google Maps Tile Cutter Built by Bramus! - http://www.bram.us/

About

PS_Bramus.GoogleMapsTileCutter is a Photoshop script that cuts image tiles from any image for direct use with Google Maps.

Installation

• Download and extract PS_Bramus.GoogleMapsTileCutter
• Move PS_Bramus.GoogleMapsTileCutter.jsx to your Photoshop scripts directory
  • For Photoshop CS6 on Mac OS X this is /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS6/Presets/Scripts
  • For Photoshop CS6 on Windows this is C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6\Presets\Scripts
• Restart Photoshop if it was already running

How to use

Cutting tiles

• Open Photoshop and open the image you want to process.
• Access the script from the scripts menu in Photoshop: File > Scripts > PS_Bramus.GoogleMapsTileCutter.
• The script will start carving the tiles for as many zoom levels as possible.
  • During this phase it will look like Photoshop is going berzerk, this is normal, as it is.
  • Depending on the size of the image it might be a good idea to take coffee break.
• When the script has finished carving, you will find the tiles on your desktop, in a tilecutter subfolder (~/Desktop/tilecutter)

Implementing the tiles

The resulting tiles can be used directly in Google Maps by setting up a custom map type, using a google.maps.ImageMapType instance

A fully working example is included in the examples directory that came with the download of PS_Bramus.GoogleMapsTileCutter.

A live example is available at http://bramus.github.io/photoshop-google-maps-tile-cutter/example/

Notes

• The included example and Google Maps documentation referenced is for Google Maps Version 3.
• PS_Bramus.GoogleMapsTileCutter will resize the canvas to being a square one, as this is easier to process and implement
• A result is that extra (empty) tiles will be generated. In a future version it'll be possible to omit these tiles from being saved, to save diskspace from being wasted.
• If you're familiar with JavaScript, you can adjust lines 11-25 of the script to change some settings like the targetPath (where to save the files), bgColor (background color for empty tiles), etc.

Credits

PS_Bramus.GoogleMapsTileCutter is based upon the Automatic Tile Cutter by Will James, Curtis Wyatt, and Nate Bundy.

Basically PS_Bramus.GoogleMapsTileCutter is an improved, cleaned up version of their work.