There are various utilities to download Google Earth Images   available freely over the internet. Such as  Google Image Downloader http://download.cnet.com/Google-Image-Downloader/3000-2381_4-75439931.html and SAS Planet https://bitbucket.org/sas_team/sas.planet.bin/downloads These utilities are capable to download the Google Image in JPG, BMP, TIFF, ECW etc formats and works well.   The users are utilizing these free utilities and downloaded image. But the images downloaded still have Google water mark on it. (See the image below).   These utilities access the Google Server directly and download the individual tiles and assemble these tiles on client end and mosaic into one image. Every tile on Google server is water marked by Google logo.  TheSpatio team developed a custom utility which is capable to download, mosaic and geo-reference the tiles and yields the entire image in JPG format. Here is the screen shot The utility is un...