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Download Bing Map Bird's Eye Images. (High resolution)
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""" | |
Use this code to download High resolution Birds Eye view which is similar to Google map's 45° imagery. There is no straight | |
forward way to download either of these. | |
""" | |
import urllib | |
import json, sys | |
from PIL import Image | |
from io import BytesIO | |
latlon = sys.argv[1] | |
key = "BING MAPS API KEY" | |
# latlon = "40.8495,-74.4557" | |
# You can set orientation by setting orientation=[0, 90, 180, 270] in the url. By default its 0 (North). | |
url = "https://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Imagery/Metadata/Birdseye?centerPoint={}&key={}".format(latlon, key) | |
content = urllib.urlopen(url).read() | |
resp = json.loads(content) | |
main = resp["resourceSets"] | |
for inner in main: | |
if inner["estimatedTotal"] > 0: | |
for res in inner["resources"]: | |
tile_url = res["imageUrl"] | |
subdomain = res["imageUrlSubdomains"] | |
zoom = res["zoomMax"] | |
xtile = res["tilesX"] | |
ytile = res["tilesY"] | |
tiles = xtile * ytile # total tiles: 0 - tileX * tileY | |
tile_width = res["imageWidth"] | |
tile_height = res["imageHeight"] | |
# Read all the image tiles and store in array. | |
imgs = [] | |
for tile_id in range(tiles): | |
ctile = tile_url.format(subdomain=subdomain[1], zoom=zoom, tileId=tile_id) | |
img_content = urllib.urlopen(ctile).read() | |
sys.stdout.write("\r>> Got link {} out of {}".format(tile_id, tiles)) | |
sys.stdout.flush() | |
imgs.append(img_content) | |
# Open the images in the array using ByteIO and PIL | |
bt = map(BytesIO, imgs) | |
open_images = map(Image.open, bt) | |
total_width = xtile * tile_width | |
max_height = ytile * tile_height | |
new_im = Image.new('RGB', (total_width, max_height)) | |
x_offset = 0 | |
y_offset = 0 | |
for im in open_images: | |
new_im.paste(im, (x_offset, y_offset)) | |
x_offset += im.size[0] | |
if x_offset == total_width: | |
x_offset = 0 | |
y_offset += im.size[1] | |
# Save image as png name with latlong. | |
new_im.save("{}.png".format(latlon)) | |
else: | |
sys.__stderr__.write("Nothing found at given location!\n") | |
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Nice piece of code gives great images.