Smopy
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Give a box in geographical coordinates (latitude/longitude) and a zoom level,
Smopy returns an OpenStreetMap tile image!


Installation
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Smopy currently requires:

* Pillow
* NumPy
* matplotlib
* IPython (optional)


To install Smopy run ``pip install smopy``.

For IPython support run ``pip install smopy[ipython]``.

To install Smopy directly from the repository clone the project and put the folder in your PYTHONPATH.


Terms of use
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This module fetches image maps from `OpenStreetMap <http://www.openstreetmap.org/>`_'s servers.
See the `Tile usage policy <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_usage_policy>`_.
In particular, **be careful not to retrieve large maps** as this can overload the servers.
