Current version: v3.3b (released 31.01.2022)
Information about releases will be announced also in the Twitter under hashtag #FetchMap
by @w071.
Fetch_map is an script application written to
fetch a given size map from supported map services by
retrieving needed individual map part images and combining them
to a larger map. The user provides the map center geographical
coordinates and the horizontal and vertical result map size in kilometers and
the requested map scale. Multiple map scales are available from the services.
The application supports Finnish coordinate systems and map area of Finland.
In addition to generating the requested map image, the application script
saves map calibration files to the disk. Supported calibration and map
archive formats are:
The script currently uses and supports the following Finnish map services:
The script can be extended and further developed to support other map services.
See the usage help for details about script options,
parameters and examples how to execute the script. See the
Fetch_map FAQ before asking the
author for support (olammi at iki dot fi). See the
changelog for information about current and former
release changes.
Requirements
Requirements for running the application script are:
- Python series 3 interpreter 3.6 or newer (Python version 2 not anymore supported)
(www.python.org) (tested with 3.6.9 and 3.10.1)
- Pillow, Python Imaging Library fork (original PIL not available anymore)
(tested with 5.1.0 and 9.0.0)
Licence and getting the software
Donationware, distributed as Freeware
To individual and non-commercial use only! Script
and source code may be used freely for non-commercial
purposes. Not allowed to be used for mass downloading
of maps!
If you find this software useful to you and you would
like to help the developer to maintain it also in the future,
please donate a small amount of your liking to the
PayPal account: olammi@iki.fi. You can use the below PayPal link for donation.
This donation is not required to use the software and the
software is licenced as freeware.
The software can be downloaded here.
