4/10/2023 0 Comments Google earth basic free download![]() ![]() This time I decided to write a generalizable Python script to download satellite images, and I want to share that code with you here. In the past I’ve found various ad hoc workarounds. This is not the first time I’ve run into this issue. ![]() So, since these images exist online, I should be able to easily download a free tile image, perhaps a GeoTIFF image, centered on a major city like Chicago, right? Wrong. There are plenty of satellites in the sky mapping the Earth surface many of these make their images available for free, and of course we are all familiar with mapping utilities like Google maps. I figured that a simple Google search would easily return a place to download a ready-made image of the city with latitude and longitude embedded that I could use in my favorite geographic information system (GIS) application. Recently I went looking online for a satellite image of Chicago to use in an RCS workshop. ![]()
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