Interactive Google Maps for Python

GooMPy provides a Python interface to the Google Static Maps API, automatically downloading and stitching together map tiles into a single image that you can zoom and pan dynamically in your Python program. To support using maps when you don't have an internet connection, GooMPY provides a pre-fetching function that stores the tiles in a caching folder. To keep the amount of tile-downloading to a minimum, GooMPy doesn't have functions for adding waypoints or other annotations to the map through Google's API. We plan on implementing these feature ourselves in the future.

To run GooMPy you'll need the Python Image Library (PIL) or equivalent (Pillow for Windows and OS X) installed on your computer. The repository includes an example using Tkinter, though you should be able to use GooMPy with other toolkits like wx and Qt.

Because Google limits the number of tiles that you can download during a given time period, we recommend setting up an API key as described here:

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/staticmaps/#api_key

Once you have your key, put it in the file goompy/key.py, and GooMPy will use it in fetching map tiles. If you run out of downloads, the tiles will be black with a "capacity exceeded" image in them.