Version 0.6 (February 19, 2013)#

Features#

Patrick Peglar added the ability to draw ticks for some limited projections when using the gridlines() method on an Axes.
Phil Elson and Carwyn Pelley extended the cartopy documentation to include new tutorials such as Using the cartopy shapereader.
Ian Edwards added a new example to create a favicon for cartopy.
Phil Elson added a new example to show polygon analysis and visualisation with Shapely and cartopy.
Edward Campbell added a new cartopy.crs.EuroPP projection for UTM zone 32.
Andrew Dawson added a central_longitude keyword for the Stereographic family of projections.
Phil Elson added a Downloader class which allows automatic downloading of shapefiles (currently from Natural Earth and GSHHS). The extension requires no user action and can be configured via the cartopy.config dictionary.
Development plans for cartopy 0.7 and beyond
- Improve the projection definitions to support better control over datum definitions and consider adding WKT support (ticket).
- Begin work on vector field support (barbs, quiver, streamlines etc.).
- Continue identifying and implementing performance enhancements (particularly in contour drawing).
- Extend the number of projections for which it is possible to draw tick marks.