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Download Bing Map Bird's Eye Images. (High resolution)
"""
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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hizemj commented Oct 4, 2018

Is this still valid? Can't get it working
Thanks

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