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Plot on map projections (with coastlines and political boundaries) using
matplotlib
.
This is a support package for basemap
with the basic data assets
required by basemap
to work.
The package is available in PyPI and can be installed with pip
:
python -m pip install basemap-data
The land-sea mask, coastline, lake, river and political boundary data
are extracted from the GSHHG datasets (version 2.3.6) using GMT
(5.x series) and are included under the terms of the LGPLv3+ license
(see COPYING
and COPYING.LESSER
).
The other files are included under the terms of the MIT license. See
LICENSE.epsg
for the EPSG file (taken from the PROJ.4 package) and
LICENSE.mit
for the rest.
FAQs
Data assets for matplotlib basemap
We found that basemap-data demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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