{"repo":"doersino/aerialbot","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/doersino/aerialbot","clone":"git clone https://github.com/doersino/aerialbot.git","description":"A simple yet highly configurable Mastodon bot that posts geotagged aerial imagery of a random location in the world.","language":"Python","stars":233,"topics":["google-maps","maps","map-tiles","python3","twitter-bot","gis","shapefile","satellite-imagery","aerial-imagery","satellite"],"license":"MIT","category":"workflow-automation","readme_excerpt":"ærialbot A simple yet highly configurable Mastodon bot that posts geotagged aerial imagery of a random location in the world. --- In a bit more detail, whenever you run ærialbot, it... loads a shapefile from disk, efficiently generates a random point ꙳ within the bounds of this shape, figures out which map tiles need to be downloaded to cover a certain area around the point in sufficient꙳ detail, downloads those map tiles from a provider of your choice real fast (a threadpool is involved!), stitches them together and crops the resulting image to precisely match the configured area, saves that to disk, and posts the image, optionally with a geotag. Formerly a Twitter bot (until fascist billionaire acquisition shenanigans ensued). As of November 2022, I've migrated all ærialbot instaces I had been running to Mastodon – follow them at @aerialbot@mastodon.social if you like. You can also take a look at their now-silent Twitter equivalents... 🇺🇸 @americasquared, which tweets a satellite view of a randomly selected square mile of the United States once daily (examples shown below). 🇰🇷 @baekmanpyeong, which tweets a square sized one million (백만, baekman ) pyeong (평, traditional Korean area unit, roughly 3.3058 m²), i.e. 1.818×1.818 km, somewhere in South Korea once each day. 🗾 @nihonmusuukei ( Nihon mu sū kei = 日本無数景 ≈ 日本∞景, countless views of Japan), which tweets a square kilometer of Japan every day. 🇩🇪 @zehnhektar, which tweets a square sized 316×316 meters ( Zehn Hektar =","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/doersino","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/doersino/aerialbot/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}