title: Easy OpenStreetMap tile displaying for Python
body: <p>I want to include the open street map (OSM) in my python code.</p>
  
  <p>I have read through lots of webpages regarding to OSM. But unfortunately I'm a bit lost, regarding which package I use best. </p>
  
  <p>I'm looking for an easy way to get an OSM image in my app. As I starting point I'm thinking of something like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
  
  # Pseudo - Code for required function 'GetOSMImage'
  Map = GetOSMImage(lat,long,delta_lat,delta_long)
  
  imgplot = plt.imshow(Map)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Later I want to add plot my additional data in this plt. (I'm aware that I'll need to deal with projections etc.)</p>
  
  <p>What I don't need/want:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Display on my own website</li>
  <li>To upload my data to some Internet Server</li>
  <li>interactive features like zooming, scrolling  (in the first place)</li>
  <li>manually process and render the .xml data from OSM </li>
  <li>In the first place I don't want to define every detail of the rendering style. I hope/expect that there exists some default styles.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Do you have a good starting point for me?
  Or do I underestimate the complexity of this topic?</p>