> To create Prison Map, Begley coded a script that plugged the known coordinates of prisons and jails nationwide into the Google Maps API. When he ran the script, it snapped a photo of every county jail, state prison (...)

I'm familiar with the GMaps API, but not with how one would do that? Is this run inside a browser/PhantomJS?

Does anyone has an idea how to do this as simply and "cleanly" as possible?