I'm doing a project that my back end program needs a image generated from google map api. It is the exact same image that is on the users monitor. I'm currently using google map api to generate the picture but since it contains long and multiple parameters, it exceeds the url length limit(more than 3k chars). I can do multiple requests on google map(more than 10) which will return more than 10 images and than combine them into one. But the process of doing this gets very hairy and I was thinking if it is possible to capture a screen shot when the user is viewing the map and pass it to the back end. How does the two ways compare in terms of efficiency and practicality?
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