How to show Google Maps tile overlays of Google Earth's Old-world maps (or a blank / physical world map)?

You can also use open-source MapTiler application - http://www.maptiler.org or the command line utility gdal2tiles.

Here is a tutorial on building custom tiled maps: http://webtide.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/custom-google-maps.

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