A cartographic python library with Matplotlib support for visualisation
Project description
Cartopy is a Python package designed to make drawing maps for data analysis and visualisation easy.
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Overview
Cartopy is a Python package designed to make drawing maps for data analysis and visualisation easy.
It features:
- object oriented projection definitions
- point, line, polygon and image transformations between projections
- integration to expose advanced mapping in Matplotlib with a simple and intuitive interface
- powerful vector data handling by integrating shapefile reading with Shapely capabilities
Documentation can be found at https://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/docs/latest/.
Get in touch
- Ask usage questions on StackOverflow.
- For less well defined questions, ideas, general discussion or announcements of related projects use the Google Group.
- Report bugs, suggest features or view the source code on GitHub.
- To chat with developers and other users you can use the Gitter Chat
Credits, copyright and license
Cartopy is developed collaboratively under the SciTools umberella.
A full list of codecontributors ("Cartopy contributors") can be found at https://github.com/SciTools/cartopy/graphs/contributors.
Code is just one of many ways of positively contributing to Cartopy, please see our contributing guide for more details on how you can get involved.
Cartopy is released under a LGPL license with a shared copyright model. See COPYING and COPYING.LESSER for full terms.
The Met Office has made a significant contribution to the development, maintenance and support of this library. All Met Office contributions are copyright on behalf of the British Crown.
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