Development Status
- 4 - Beta
Framework
- Matplotlib
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 :: 3
- Python :: 3.9
- Python :: 3.10
- Python :: 3.11
- Python :: 3 :: Only
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.
Table of contents
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 Cartopy category on Matplotlib's Discourse.
- 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.
Wheel compatibility matrix
| Platform | CPython 3.9 | CPython 3.10 | CPython 3.11 |
|---|---|---|---|
| macosx_10_9_x86_64 | |||
| macosx_11_0_arm64 | |||
| manylinux2014_i686 | |||
| manylinux2014_x86_64 | |||
| manylinux_2_17_i686 | |||
| manylinux_2_17_x86_64 | |||
| win_amd64 |
Files in release
numpy
(>=1.21)
matplotlib
(>=3.4)
shapely
(>=1.7)
packaging
(>=20)
pyshp
(>=2.1)
pyproj
(>=3.1.0)