How Do I Map My Land?

I would like to have a map of my land. I tried to take a snapshot texture with the Map screen open, but that doesn't work. I tried going to www.SLurl.com and saving a picture of the parcel, but that didn't work. I tried the postcard map on the main SL page, but that doesn't work.

Is there any way to get a copy of the map of my land that SL has?

Thanx!

~HP

If you're on Windows, you can take a screenshot to clipboard of anything any time simply by using the Windows shortcut, ctrl-printscreen. Here's how you'd do it for the map window:

1. Open the map window.
   
   
   
2. Press ctrl-printscreen. This will copy whatever's currently onscreen into memory (to the clipboard).
   
   
   
3. Open Photoshop (or your graphical editor of choice; even MS Paint will work for this).
   
   
   
4. In Photoshop (or equivielent), open a new document at your exact screen size (in pixels), and go Edit -> Paste (or use the Windows shortcut ctrl-V). The screenshot you just took should now paste from your system clipboard onto the canvas in the image file you're working on now.
   
   
   
5. Save the file, and you're all done. From there you can upload it to SL or do whatever else you want with it.

There ya go.

Of course, if you're taking a snapshot of the Map, your map will reflect what the area looked a couple months ago, rather than what it looks like this month...

Thanks, that's what I needed to know.

Also this is a lot more basic and im not sure how well it would work, is you could fly up high enough to fit all your land on your screen then take a screen shot, that might give you a decent looking map, then you could go through with photoshop, or gimp which is free, and outline buildings or add labels.....just an idea, I hope it helps.

theres also the website view of the live grid, so you could either use a 'live' picture, or copy/save that