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://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.