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

## Installation

Smopy currently requires:

* PIL or Pillow
* NumPy
* matplotlib
* IPython

To install, `pip install smopy` or git clone and put the folder in your PYTHONPATH.


## Terms of use

This module fetches image maps from [OpenStreetMap](http://www.openstreetmap.org/)'s servers. See the [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.