import httplib
import urllib
import re
import string
import Image
import StringIO

image_url = 'http://farm1.static.flickr.com/29/52139344_21e210d829.jpg'
lat = '37.507653'
lon = '-122.339994'

try :
    image_data = urllib.urlopen(image_url).read()
    image_obj = Image.open(StringIO.StringIO(image_data))
except Exception, e :
    raise e

(image_width, image_height) = image_obj.size

marker_args = map(str, ('example', lat, lon, image_width, image_height))
marker_args = ",".join(marker_args)

mm_args = {
    'filter' : 'atkinson',
    'provider' : 'MICROSOFT_AERIAL',
    'method' : 'center',
    'latitude' : lat,
    'longitude' : lon,
    'zoom' : 17,
    'height' : 1239,
    'width' : 1771,
    'marker' : marker_args,
    }

mm_params = urllib.urlencode(mm_args)
mm_url = '127.0.0.1:9999'
mm_endpoint = "/?%s" % mm_params

try :
    conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(mm_url)
    conn.request("GET", mm_endpoint)
    res = conn.getresponse()
except Exception, e :
    raise e

if res.status != 200 :

    if res.status == 500 :
        errmsg = "(%s) %s" % (res.getheader('x-errorcode'), res.getheader('x-errormessage'))
        raise Exception, errmsg
    else :
        raise Exception, res.message   

conn.close()

meta = {}

re_xheader = re.compile(r"^x-wscompose-", re.IGNORECASE)

for key, value in res.getheaders() :
        
    if re_xheader.match(key) :
            
        parts = key.split("-")
        parts = map(string.lower, parts)
        
        major = parts[2]
        minor = parts[3]
        
        if not meta.has_key(major) :
            meta[major] = {}
                
        meta[major][minor] = value

coords = map(int, meta['marker']['example'].split(","))
            
x_off = coords[2]
y_off = coords[3]

map_data = res.read()
map_obj = Image.open(StringIO.StringIO(map_data))

map_obj.paste(image_obj, (x_off, y_off))
map_obj.show()