google earth images downloader is a tool that help you to get offline satellite tile images from google earth (not google maps). It can work without google earth installed.
After downloading, there are some ways to view the offline maps:
You can view downloaded offline map byMap Viewer, and you can zoom out or zoom in the offline map.

Output the offline map as BMP,JPG,TIFF file.
It can even export all tiles to a sqlite database with MBtiles format, then you use the sqlite db on some Android or iOS apps, such as MapBox, RMaps, Oruxmaps, etc.
When you created a mbtiles file, you can view the mbtiles file with MBTiles Viewer.

If you want to make a offline map of your city by yourself, it is very useful for you.

Whats New:
Updates: official site does not provide any info about changes in this version.