Cartopy is a Python package designed to make drawing maps for data analysis and visualisation easy.

Table of contents

• Overview
• Get in touch
• License and copyright

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://cartopy.readthedocs.io/stable/.

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 Discourse Chat (direct link works after Discourse login).

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 the 3-Clause BSD license with a shared copyright model. See LICENSE 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.