pyTerra is a Python module that allows you to make requests to Microsoft's TerraServer. With it, you can download cartographic images for any almost any geographic extent in the conterminous US. It mimics the SOAP API provided by the TerraServer located at <http://terraservice.net/TerraService.asmx>. A helper class is also provided that reduces the interaction required to defining a bounding box and writing the image out to the file system. A source distribution and Windows binary is provided. See <http://hobu.biz/software/pyTerra> for more information and download. Howard Butler