Google Maps & Open Street Map Screenshot Taker

Installation

• Install Chrome Webdriver or Firefox Geckodriver
• Install Conda
• Create Conda environment conda env create
• Modify take_screenshot function inside test.py
• Run python test.py

Procedure

• If you want to have matching from OSM and GMaps, you need to run the test.py with osm=True. This will create a osm_output.txt file which GMaps read this file to generate matched images. Then you should set osm=False and set gmaps or gmaps_satellite to True, so that the matching will be done.
• If you don’t want to read from OSM (just remove the osm_ouput.txt from the directory), the GMaps will not skip any row or cols.

Parameters

• lat Latitude of the top left corner (float)
• long Longitude of the top left corner (float)
• row Row count (int)
• col Col count (int)
• file_name File name of the output images (string)
• number Number of the file name {file_name}-{number}.png (int)
• crop_status Determine whether crop the image (by crop_size) or not (bool)
• gmaps Take a screenshot from Google Maps Map View (bool)
• gmaps_satellite Take a screenshot from Google Maps Satellite View (bool)
• osm Generate an image from Open Street Maps (bool)
• zoom Zoom value only applicable for Google Maps (int (between 0 and 21))

Notes

• Based on OSMnx
• The Chromedriver inside the repo is for macOS for M1. The version: ChromeDriver 102.0.5005.61
• Download the latest or suitable version for Chrome from https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
• Download the latest or suitable version for Firefox Geckodriver from https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases