A Google Maps Tool Collects What’s Available For A User-specified Region In The Form Of A GIF
google-maps-at-88-mph The folks maintaining Google Maps regularly update the satellite imagery it serves its users, but outdated versions of the imagery are kept around in for a year or two. This Python-based tool automatically crawls its way through these versions, figuring out which provide unique imagery and downloading it for a user-defined (that’s you! you get to define things!) area, eventually assembling it in the form of a GIF. This weekend project is based on ærialbot, a previous weekend project […]
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