Version 0.15 (February 1, 2017)

Features

• The cartopy.crs.Mercator class now allows a latitude_true_scale to be specified.

• A tiles url can now be passed directly to the cartopy.io.img_tiles.GoogleTiles class.

• The background_img() method has been added. This allows users to add a background image to the map, from a selection of pre-prepared images held in a directory specified by the CARTOPY_USER_BACKGROUNDS environment variable.

• The Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) interface has been extended so that WMTS layers can be added to GeoAxes in different projections.

• The NearsidePerspective projection has been added.

• Optional keyword arguments can now be supplied to the add_wmts() method, which will be passed to the OGC WMTS gettile method.

• New additions to the gallery: