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This is neat!

I’ve built something similar, although my tool can pull its data from any service that supports tile indexing via the Web Mercator Transform (e.g. Google Maps, OSM, basically every online mapping service):

https://github.com/doersino/aerialbot

Its original purpose is the creation of Twitter bots like the ones liked below, but it works well for grabbing detailed satellite maps of arbitrary areas.

https://twitter.com/placesfromorbit

https://twitter.com/americasquared

https://twitter.com/baekmanpyeong

https://twitter.com/nihonmusuukei




Love this, and the bots. I had one running myself for a while, but I missed the part that grabbed the satellite imagery, do I did that in bulk ahead and had a folder of them.

https://twitter.com/FiveEarthColors


This is awesome! I'd go through the code as well in a bit, but the twitter bots are really amazing.




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