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  • Gallery
  • Installation
  • API reference
  • What’s new

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  • Lines and polygons
    • Custom Boundary Shape
    • Feature Creation
    • Features
    • Global Map
    • Hurricane Katrina
    • Nightshade feature
    • Rotated pole boxes
    • The effect of badly referencing an ellipse
    • Tissot’s Indicatrix
  • Scalar data
    • Adding a cyclic point to help with wrapping of global data
    • Contour labels
    • Contour transform options
    • Filled contours
    • Map tile acquisition
    • Plotting the Aurora Forecast from NOAA on Orthographic Polar Projection
    • Reprojecting images from a Geostationary projection
  • Vector data
    • Arrows
    • Barbs
    • Regridding vectors with quiver
    • Streamplot
  • Web services
    • Displaying WMTS tiled map data on an arbitrary projection
    • Interactive WMS (Web Map Service)
    • Interactive WMTS (Web Map Tile Service)
    • Web Map Tile Service time dimension demonstration
    • Web tile imagery
  • Gridlines and labels
    • Gridlines and tick labels
    • Tick Labels
  • Miscellanea
    • Animating a gridded surface
    • Cartopy Favicon
    • Cartopy Logo
    • Displaying all 60 zones of the UTM projection
    • Displaying data on an eccentric ellipse
    • Modifying the boundary/neatline of a map in cartopy
    • Tube Stations
    • UN Flag
    • Using Cartopy and AxesGrid toolkit

Gallery#

The following examples show off the functionality of Cartopy. They illustrate the kinds of things you can do with this library. For more examples, tutorials, and guides on how to use Cartopy, see the getting started section.

Lines and polygons#

Custom Boundary Shape

Custom Boundary Shape

Custom Boundary Shape
Feature Creation

Feature Creation

Feature Creation
Features

Features

Features
Global Map

Global Map

Global Map
Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina
Nightshade feature

Nightshade feature

Nightshade feature
Rotated pole boxes

Rotated pole boxes

Rotated pole boxes
The effect of badly referencing an ellipse

The effect of badly referencing an ellipse

The effect of badly referencing an ellipse
Tissot's Indicatrix

Tissot’s Indicatrix

Tissot's Indicatrix

Scalar data#

Adding a cyclic point to help with wrapping of global data

Adding a cyclic point to help with wrapping of global data

Adding a cyclic point to help with wrapping of global data
Contour labels

Contour labels

Contour labels
Contour transform options

Contour transform options

Contour transform options
Filled contours

Filled contours

Filled contours
Map tile acquisition

Map tile acquisition

Map tile acquisition
Plotting the Aurora Forecast from NOAA on Orthographic Polar Projection

Plotting the Aurora Forecast from NOAA on Orthographic Polar Projection

Plotting the Aurora Forecast from NOAA on Orthographic Polar Projection
Reprojecting images from a Geostationary projection

Reprojecting images from a Geostationary projection

Reprojecting images from a Geostationary projection

Vector data#

Arrows

Arrows

Arrows
Barbs

Barbs

Barbs
Regridding vectors with quiver

Regridding vectors with quiver

Regridding vectors with quiver
Streamplot

Streamplot

Streamplot

Web services#

Displaying WMTS tiled map data on an arbitrary projection

Displaying WMTS tiled map data on an arbitrary projection

Displaying WMTS tiled map data on an arbitrary projection
Interactive WMS (Web Map Service)

Interactive WMS (Web Map Service)

Interactive WMS (Web Map Service)
Interactive WMTS (Web Map Tile Service)

Interactive WMTS (Web Map Tile Service)

Interactive WMTS (Web Map Tile Service)
Web Map Tile Service time dimension demonstration

Web Map Tile Service time dimension demonstration

Web Map Tile Service time dimension demonstration
Web tile imagery

Web tile imagery

Web tile imagery

Gridlines and labels#

Gridlines and tick labels

Gridlines and tick labels

Gridlines and tick labels
Tick Labels

Tick Labels

Tick Labels

Miscellanea#

Animating a gridded surface

Animating a gridded surface

Animating a gridded surface
Cartopy Favicon

Cartopy Favicon

Cartopy Favicon
Cartopy Logo

Cartopy Logo

Cartopy Logo
Displaying all 60 zones of the UTM projection

Displaying all 60 zones of the UTM projection

Displaying all 60 zones of the UTM projection
Displaying data on an eccentric ellipse

Displaying data on an eccentric ellipse

Displaying data on an eccentric ellipse
Modifying the boundary/neatline of a map in cartopy

Modifying the boundary/neatline of a map in cartopy

Modifying the boundary/neatline of a map in cartopy
Tube Stations

Tube Stations

Tube Stations
UN Flag

UN Flag

UN Flag
Using Cartopy and AxesGrid toolkit

Using Cartopy and AxesGrid toolkit

Using Cartopy and AxesGrid toolkit

Download all examples in Python source code: gallery_python.zip

Download all examples in Jupyter notebooks: gallery_jupyter.zip

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