A cartographic python library with matplotlib support for visualisation
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Author: UK Met Office
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Development Status
- 4 - Beta
License
- OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License v3 or later (LGPLv3+)
Operating System
- MacOS :: MacOS X
- Microsoft :: Windows
- POSIX
- POSIX :: AIX
- POSIX :: Linux
Programming Language
- C++
- Python
- Python :: 2
- Python :: 2.7
- Python :: 3
- Python :: 3.3
- Python :: 3.4
Topic
- Scientific/Engineering
- Scientific/Engineering :: GIS
- Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization

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 http://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/docs/latest/.
Code
Cartopy is licenced under GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPLv3). Development occurs at https://github.com/SciTools/cartopy.
Oct 08, 2024
0.24.1
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0.20.0
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0.19.0.post1
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0.18.0
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0.15.1
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0.14.0
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0.13.1
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0.13.0
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0.12.0.5
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0.11.0
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