Aleph: A Free Tool That Gives AI Agents Satellite, Street View and Terrain Data of Any Area

Aleph is a free tool that saves five map layers of any area you pick, including satellite images, Street View photos and 3D models, as files an AI agent can study. It needs no API keys.
artificial-intelligence
data-science
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Kabui, Charles

Published

2026-11-03

Keywords

geospatial-data, street-view, satellite-imagery, ai-agents, openstreetmap

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Aleph is a free tool for developers and researchers that saves a chosen patch of the real world as files on your computer, so an AI agent or a person can look at a place instead of reading about it. You draw a rectangle or polygon on a browser map, or type one terminal command for a single spot. Aleph downloads building outlines, ground heights, satellite images, Street View photos and 3D models. In the docs, one command takes ten Street View photos along a named street, and another option prints a summary of the saved files that a program can read.

The README says Aleph began as a way for AI models to gather information about the physical world. It needs only three Python libraries and no API keys, the access codes most map services ask for. Google’s official Map Tiles API serves the same Street View, satellite and 3D tiles, but only with a Google key. The other two layers, OpenStreetMap buildings and AWS Terrain Tiles heights, are open data that you can reuse if you credit the source.

Street View, satellite images and 3D models come from Google, and Google’s terms forbid bulk downloads and offline copies of Street View images, even for academic and nonprofit projects. The README also says Aleph uses undocumented APIs, so it may break or hit rate limits.

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BibTeX citation:
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  author = {{Kabui, Charles}},
  title = {Aleph: {A} {Free} {Tool} {That} {Gives} {AI} {Agents}
    {Satellite,} {Street} {View} and {Terrain} {Data} of {Any} {Area}},
  date = {2026-11-03},
  url = {https://toknow.ai/posts/aleph-satellite-streetview-terrain-data-for-llms/},
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For attribution, please cite this work as:
Kabui, Charles. 2026. “Aleph: A Free Tool That Gives AI Agents Satellite, Street View and Terrain Data of Any Area.” https://toknow.ai/posts/aleph-satellite-streetview-terrain-data-for-llms/.