Questions tagged [cartopy]
A library providing cartographic tools for python.
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Draw a zebra style axis in Cartopy?
I want to use this zebra type of map border in Cartopy.
This example was written in IDL which I used a lot in the past. So how can implement this in Python with Cartopy or Matplotlib?
Below is some ...
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Calculating geodesic distance along a path (lat/lon points) at once?
Using Python 3.7 with Jupyter Notebook on a Win10 x64.
I have a list of lat-long tuples representing a path and I want to calculate the total length along that path in meters (or km, miles etc). I ...
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Estimating a Rotated Pole given a gridded dataset with lat/lons at each point
I have netcdf dataset that I think is regular gridded dataset using a Rotated pole mapping, but the rotated pole information is wrong.
For those not familiar with Rotated Poles, the cartopy ...
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Increasing resolution of Cartopy stock background?
I am trying to create a small application that will show zoomed in maps. If possible, I would like to avoid using map tiles.
Going off the example on this page: https://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/docs/...
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Geoplot/Cartopy Orthographic projection won't work near equator
I am having trouble getting Geoplot's Orthographic projection to work near the equator. It works fine at locations ±90 longitude where latitude is right at 0, but if I run the code below, it fails ...
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cartopy and xarray issues
I'm beginning to use netCDF4 data and therefore I have downloaded xarray and also cartopy (with pip).
I have downloaded data from the climate data store and want to plot these data.
I have a ...
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Cartopy lakes and rivers are clipped
I'm trying to produce a map showing water bodies like oceans/rivers/lakes polygons for purposes of plotting vessel voyages using cartopy. Ultimately I'm looking to create a sea mesh grid using the ...
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Displaying geopandas points with cartopy
I am trying to display a GeoDataFrame containing points, using cartopy.
I first tried to follow the indications given in the documentation of geopandas.
However, the points are not displayed:
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Interpolate Temperature Data On Urban Area Using Cartopy
I'm trying to interpolate temperature data observed on an urban area formed by 5 locations. I am using cartopy to interpolate and draw the map, however, when I run the script the temperature ...
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Add geopandas to cartopy
How can I add a geopandas geodataframe to a cartopy map? My objective is to create a large number of PNGs to turn into a GIF. The geopandas default plotting options are limited so I would like to ...
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Shapefiles won't display with cartopy
I'm trying my first GIS project with cartopy and matplotlib and I'm having some trouble displaying some shapefiles.
The shapefiles were downloaded from here: http://data.vancouver.ca/datacatalogue/...
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Cartopy image tiles - determining possible zoom level in advance?
In Cartopy I'm using an image tile like so:
terrain_tile = cimgt.StamenTerrain()
ax.add_image(tile, zoom)
By default I've set the zoom level to 14 and that works perfectly for my first test case.
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How do I set extent in a geopandas plot (as in cartopy)?
The usual. My shapefile is from a much bigger place than my data, and I want to zoom in. The dark dot below is Melbourne, and it has some very interesting data plotted on it.
base.plot(linewidth=0
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Rotating geometry in cartopy?
I would like to use cartopy to display a map of the cities in the contiguous United States. In order to do so, I have written the following code (the data comes from here):
import geopandas as gpd
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cartopy: plotting shapefiles
I am new to gis and am trying to plot a shapefile containing land polygons. (From OSM.) Unfortunately my output image is always empty (i.e. white). Can somebody tell me what I am doing wrong?
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Error and kernel dies with shapely/geos inside Jupyter notebook
I have a Python 2.7 script (code below) that scrapes data from a table on the web and draws a map. It runs fine from the command line using
$ python bears.py
When I run the identical script from ...
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Installing cartopy on OSGeo4W
I am trying to install cartopy on OSGeo4W. Even though all required packages already downloaded and updated, the installer won't recognize them. I keep getting the following error:
setup.py:168: ...
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Python Mapping in Matplotlib Cartopy Color One Country
I have plotted a map of the world using matplotlib Cartopy. Now I want to select a specific country in the map in this case the United States and change the color. I think this is possible but not ...
