nwns / tilemapbase

Use OpenStreetMap tiles as basemaps in python / matplotlib

TileMapBase

Uses OpenStreetMap tiles, or other tile servers, to produce "basemaps" for use with matplotlib. Uses a SQLite database to cache the tiles, so you can experiment with map production without re-downloading the same tiles. Supports Open Data tiles from the UK Ordnance Survey.

Requirements

Pure python. Uses requests to make HTTP requests for tiles, and pillow for image manipulation.

Install

pip install tilemapbase

or build from source:

python setup.py install

or directly from GitHub:

pip install https://github.com/MatthewDaws/TileMapBase/zipball/master

Example

• Example - Jupyter notebook showing examples.
• Ordnance Survey - Ordnance survey examples.
• Notebooks - Other examples.

OpenStreetMap data

OpenStreetMap Data is "© OpenStreetMap contributors”, see http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

Please remember that tile set usage is subject to constraints: https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/tiles/

• As of 25/05/2019 OSM requires a user agent for all requests, with a warning "Faking another app’s User-Agent WILL get you blocked." We hence default to using "TileMapBase" as a user agent.

Ordnance Survery data

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right (2017)