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Plot on map projections (with coastlines and political boundaries) using
matplotlib
.
This is an optional package for basemap
with the high-resolution
data assets.
The package is available in PyPI and can be installed with pip
:
python -m pip install basemap-data-hires
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
).
FAQs
High-resolution data assets for matplotlib basemap
We found that basemap-data-hires 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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