What's New in cartopy 0.19
==========================
:Release: 0.19.0
:Date: 21st Apr 2021
For a full list of included Pull Requests and closed Issues, please see the
`0.19 milestone <https://github.com/SciTools/cartopy/milestone/27>`_.
Features
--------
* Thomas Grainger restored PEP-517 support to improve installations.
(:pull:`1681`)
* @emsterr added the ability to style bounding boxes of labels. (:pull:`1669`)
* Adrien Berchet added the ability to cache downloaded image tiles.
(:pull:`1533`)
* Greg Lucas changed the vector interpolations to be strictly in the
source coordinates, which removed some erroneous extrapolations.
(:pull:`1636`)
* Giacomo Caria added an option to remove the cardinal direction labels
from the axes. (:pull:`1662`)
* Greg Lucas added the ability to update data within a pcolormesh plot
using `set_array()` to enable animations of the fields. (:pull:`1496`)
Liam Bindle extended this capability to update the color limits
(:pull:`1655`) and Sebastian David Eastham fixed the return values when
`get_array()` was called (:pull:`1656`)
.. figure:: gallery/miscellanea/images/sphx_glr_animate_surface_001.gif
:target: gallery/miscellanea/animate_surface.html
:align: center
* @htonchia and Greg Lucas fixed an issue with large cells appearing in
pcolormesh plots. (:pull:`1622`)
* Philippe Miron added an example to demonstrate how to label specific
sides of the plot. (:pull:`1593`)
* Greg Lucas added the option to restrict the limits of gridlines. (:pull:`1574`)
* Kyle Penner fixed extrapolations using an alpha-channel in imshow().
(:pull:`1582`)
* Valentin Iovene added pkg-config instructions to help with installations on
MacOS. (:pull:`1596`)
* Luke Davis updated the tight bbox calculations to include the gridliner labels.
(:pull:`1355`)
* Luke Davis fixed the label padding for gridliners to use points which makes
the rendered screen image appear the same as the printed image now.
(:pull:`1556`)
* Daryl Herzmann added the ability to make Hexbin plots. (:pull:`1542`)
.. plot::
:width: 400pt
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import cartopy.crs as ccrs
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(10, 5))
ax = plt.axes(projection=ccrs.Robinson())
ax.coastlines()
x, y = np.meshgrid(np.arange(-179, 181), np.arange(-90, 91))
data = np.sqrt(x**2 + y**2)
ax.hexbin(x.flatten(), y.flatten(), C=data.flatten(),
gridsize=20, transform=ccrs.PlateCarree())
plt.show()
* Kyle Penner fixed image plotting when a 2D alpha array is input. (:pull:`1543`)
* Elliott Sales de Andrade and Hugo van Kemenade removed Python 2 support.
(:pull:`1516`, :pull:`1517`, :pull:`1540`, :pull:`1544`, and :pull:`1547`)
What's New in cartopy 0.18
==========================
:Release: 0.18.0
:Date: 3rd May 2020
For a full list of included Pull Requests and closed Issues, please see the
`0.18 milestone <https://github.com/SciTools/cartopy/milestone/25>`_.
Features
--------
* We are very pleased to announce that Greg Lucas has been added to the cartopy
core development team. Greg (@greglucas) added the NightShade feature in the
previous release, and has been instrumental in issue and PR triage leading up
to 0.18. He has also ensured that CI systems have kept working through
various upstream project changes.
* Kevin Donkers and Phil Elson made the AdaptiveScalar the default for Natural
Earth Features. This will make the default features look much nicer when
plotting on zoomed in axes. (:pull:`1105`)
* Elliott Sales de Andrade added support for Matplotlib 3.2 and 3.3
(:pull:`1425`) and Python 3.7 and 3.8 (:pull:`1428`).
* Alan Snow added the ability to use Proj version 6.x (:pull:`1289`) and
Elliott Sales de Andrade updated a lot of the tests and build issues for this
upgrade (:pull:`1417`).
* Andrew Huang added the ability to put the meridian and parallel gridline
labels on the gridlines within the plot boundaries rather than
only as labels on the boundary. (:pull:`1089`)
.. plot::
:width: 400pt
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import cartopy.crs as ccrs
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(10, 5))
ax = plt.axes(projection=ccrs.PlateCarree())
ax.set_global()
ax.stock_img()
ax.coastlines()
ax.gridlines(x_inline=True, draw_labels=True)
plt.show()
* Stephane Raynaud added longitude and latitude labeling to all projections. It
was previously restricted to the Mercator and PlateCarree projections.
(:pull:`1117`)
.. plot::
:width: 400pt
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import cartopy.crs as ccrs
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(10, 5))
ax = plt.axes(projection=ccrs.InterruptedGoodeHomolosine())
ax.set_global()
ax.stock_img()
ax.coastlines()
ax.gridlines(draw_labels=True)
plt.show()
* Phil Elson added the (long awaited!) ability to label contours on GeoAxes. A
:ref:`sphx_glr_gallery_scalar_data_contour_labels.py` example has been added to the
gallery demonstrating the new capability. (:pull:`1257`)
.. figure:: gallery/scalar_data/images/sphx_glr_contour_labels_001.png
:target: gallery/scalar_data/contour_labels.html
:align: center
* Matthew Bradbury added the ability to query `UK Ordnance Survey
<https://apidocs.os.uk/>`_ image tiles. (:pull:`1214`)
* Phil Elson added the ability to fetch image tiles using multiple
threads. (:pull:`1232`)
* Elliott Sales de Andrade added a
:class:`cartopy.mpl.geoaxes.GeoAxes.GeoSpine` class to replace the
:attr:`cartopy.mpl.geoaxes.GeoAxes.outline_patch` that defines the map
boundary. (:pull:`1213`)
* Elliott Sales de Andrade improved appearance of plots with tight layout.
(:pull:`1213` and :pull:`1422`)
* Ryan May fixed the Geostationary projection boundary so that geometries
no longer extend beyond the map domain. (:pull:`1216`)
* Phil Elson added support for style composition of Features. This means that
the styles set on a Feature when it is created, and when it is added to an
Axes, will be processed consistently.
Deprecations
------------
* This will be the last release with Python 2 support.
* The default value for the ``origin`` argument to
:func:`cartopy.mpl.geoaxes.GeoAxes.imshow` is now ``'upper'`` to match the
default in Matplotlib.
* The :attr:`cartopy.mpl.geoaxes.GeoAxes.outline_patch` attribute is
deprecated. In its place, use Matplotlib's standard options for controlling
the Axes frame, or access ``GeoAxes.spines['geo']`` directly.
* The :attr:`cartopy.mpl.geoaxes.GeoAxes.background_patch` attribute is
deprecated. In its place, use Matplotlib's standard options for controlling
the Axes patch, i.e., pass values to the constructor or access
``GeoAxes.patch`` directly.
* The gridliner labelling options
:attr:`cartopy.mpl.gridliner.Gridliner.xlabels_top`,
:attr:`cartopy.mpl.gridliner.Gridliner.xlabels_bottom`,
:attr:`cartopy.mpl.gridliner.Gridliner.ylabels_left`, and
:attr:`cartopy.mpl.gridliner.Gridliner.ylabels_right` are deprecated.
Instead, use :attr:`cartopy.mpl.gridliner.Gridliner.top_labels`,
:attr:`cartopy.mpl.gridliner.Gridliner.bottom_labels`,
:attr:`cartopy.mpl.gridliner.Gridliner.left_labels`, or
:attr:`cartopy.mpl.gridliner.Gridliner.right_labels`.
--------
What's New in cartopy 0.17
==========================
:Release: 0.17.0
:Date: 16th Nov 2018
For a full list of included Pull Requests and closed Issues, please see the
`0.17 milestone <https://github.com/SciTools/cartopy/milestone/23>`_.
Features
--------
* The :class:`cartopy.feature.NaturalEarthFeature` class now allows a
:class:`cartopy.feature.AdaptiveScaler` object to be passed as the ``scale``
argument. This will automatically choose the appropriate feature scale from
the GeoAxes extent. This can also be used interactively while panning and
zooming in a figure. :data:`cartopy.feature.NaturalEarthFeature.scale` is
now read-only. (:pull:`1102`, :pull:`983`)
* Proj version 5.x is now supported in Cartopy, thanks to hard work by
Elliott Sales de Andrade. As part of making this version work, the inner
workings and boundaries of many projections were improved.
(:pull:`1124`, :pull:`1148`) Elliott also improved support for warped
rectangular projections (:pull:`1180`) as well as added support for the
Eckert family of projections (:pull:`1168`) and Equal Earth projection.
(:pull:`1182`)
.. plot::
:width: 400pt
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import cartopy.crs as ccrs
eq_earth = ccrs.EqualEarth()
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(10, 5))
ax = plt.axes(projection=eq_earth)
ax.set_global()
ax.gridlines()
ax.stock_img()
ax.coastlines()
plt.show()
* Greg Lucas contributed functionality to plot day/night across the globe,
which was turned into a map feature by Phil Elson. The shading can be added
to a map with :data:`cartopy.feature.nightshade.Nightshade(datetime)`. For
more information, see the
:ref:`sphx_glr_gallery_lines_and_polygons_nightshade.py` example.
(:pull:`1135`, :pull:`1181`)
.. figure:: gallery/lines_and_polygons/images/sphx_glr_nightshade_001.png
:target: gallery/lines_and_polygons/nightshade.html
:align: center
* Elliott Sales de Andrade added optional support for the use of
`pykdtree <https://github.com/storpipfugl/pykdtree>`_
when performing image transformations. This module has been demonstrated to
be twice as fast as the old code for most of the Cartopy examples, with one
example (geostationary) having a 95% reduction in run time. (:pull:`1150`)
* Greg Lucas added a Fiona-based shapefile reader. If
`Fiona <https://github.com/Toblerity/Fiona>`_ is installed on
a user's system, this will now be the default shapefile reader, adding
significant speed improvements. (:pull:`1000`)
* Phil Elson added the ability to control the appearance of Shapely geometries
using a function. :func:`cartopy.mpl.geoaxes.GeoAxes.add_geometries` gained
a ``styler`` argument that takes a function that given a geometry, returns a
dictionary of style keyword arguments. The
:ref:`sphx_glr_gallery_lines_and_polygons_hurricane_katrina.py`
example has been updated to use this. (:pull:`1019`)
* Kevin Donkers, with help from Phil Elson and Peter Killick, improved the
interactivity of panning and zooming images by adding a raster
image cache. (:pull:`1192`, :pull:`1195`, :pull:`1197`)
* Peter Killick and Phil Elson improved the use of Cartopy in Jupyter notebook
environments by adding an HTML representation for projections. These
render vector images of the coastlines using a given
projection to enable a quick preview. (:pull:`951`, :pull:`1196`)
* Fixes were added by Elliott Sales de Andrade to support the Matplotlib 3.x
series. (:pull:`1130`)
* Ryan May fixed up the `.Geostationary` and `.NearsidePerspective` projections
as well as added additional options to the Mercator projection.
(:pull:`1189`, :pull:`1043`)
* Andrey Kiselev contributed support for the Equidistant Conic projection.
(:pull:`1022`)
.. plot::
:width: 400pt
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import cartopy.crs as ccrs
eq_conic = ccrs.EquidistantConic()
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(10, 5))
ax = plt.axes(projection=eq_conic)
ax.set_global()
ax.gridlines()
ax.stock_img()
ax.coastlines()
plt.show()
* Peter Killick updated and improved the interface to Mapbox image tiles.
(:pull:`1170`)
* Manuel Garrido and Phil Elson collaborated to add support for more themes
for the Stamen map tile set. (:pull:`1013`, :pull:`1188`)
* Support for WMTS sources was made more robust by Alex Crosby.
(:pull:`1052`, :pull:`1053`)
* Passing a ``color`` argument to
:func:`cartopy.mpl.geoaxes.GeoAxes.add_feature`
now overrides default feature ``edgecolor`` and ``facecolor`` thanks to
a change by Elliott Sales de Andrade. (:pull:`1029`)
* Phil Elson added :func:`cartopy.geodesic.Geodesic.geometry_length` to
calculated the length in physical meters of any Shapely geometry.
(:pull:`1096`)
* Elliott Sales de Andrade improved the interpolation code by normalizing
values, reducing issues due to precision. (:pull:`1042`)
* Ryan May fixed a few corner cases in the plotting and transform code.
(:pull:`1062`, :pull:`1090`)
* A ``pyproject.toml`` file has been added to Cartopy by
Elliott Sales de Andrade to make it easier to build Cartopy. Newer
versions of pip should now automatically install Cython and NumPy before
trying to build Cartopy. (:pull:`1132`)
* Andrew Dawson fixed a crash when calculating the boundary for the
Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection. (:pull:`1100`)
* Elliott Sales de Andrade and Andrew Dawson removed the use of deprecated
functionality in NumPy. (:pull:`1101`, :pull:`1122`)
* Kevin Donkers added all 60 UTM zones to the images in the supported
projection documentation. (:pull:`1103`)
* Broken URLs to the SRTM imagery were corrected by Elliott Sales de Andrade.
(:pull:`1143`)
Deprecations
------------
* :func:`cartopy.mpl.clip_path.clip_path` has been deprecated. It is a simple
wrapper for Matplotlib's path clipping, so use that instead. You can replace
``clip_path(subject, clip_bbox)`` by ``subject.clip_to_bbox(clip_bbox)``.
* :class:`cartopy.io.img_tiles.StamenTerrain` has been deprecated. Use
``Stamen('terrain-background')`` instead.
* In CartoPy 0.18, the default value for the ``origin`` argument to
:func:`cartopy.mpl.geoaxes.GeoAxes.imshow` will change from ``'lower'``
to ``'upper'`` to match the default in Matplotlib.
Incompatible Changes
--------------------
* Support for Matplotlib < 1.5.1 and NumPy < 1.10 has been removed.
--------
What's New in cartopy 0.16
==========================
:Release: 0.16.0
:Date: 21st Feb 2018
Features
--------
* We are very pleased to announce that Ryan May has been added to the cartopy
core development team. Ryan (@dopplershift) brings a wealth of experience,
and has already made significant contributions to the Matplotlib interface,
extended projections, and helped modernise the development infrastructure.
* The :class:`~cartopy.crs.Gnomonic` projection was brought up-to-date to
include the ``central_longitude`` argument. (:pull:`855`)
* Ryan May improved the formulation of the boundary ellipse for the
:class:`~cartopy.crs.Geostationary` projection and added the
``sweep_angle_axis`` keyword argument. (:pull:`890`, :pull:`897`)
* Elliott Sales de Andrade made a number of micro-optimisations to the
Matplotlib interface, fixed a number of documentation issues with
Python 3 and added Matplotlib 2.0 & 2.1 compatibility. (:pull:`886`,
:pull:`901`, :pull:`780`, :pull:`773`, :pull:`977`)
* Tick padding was added to the gridliner.
:data:`cartopy.mpl.gridliner.Gridliner.xpadding` and
:data:`~cartopy.mpl.gridliner.Gridliner.ypadding` relate. (:pull:`783`)
* Ryan May added the :meth:`~cartopy.feature.NaturalEarthFeature.with_scale`
method to the NaturalEarthFeature class.
For example, it is now possible to access higher resolution land features
with ``cartopy.feature.LAND.with_scale('50m')``. In addition to this,
:data:`cartopy.feature.STATES` was added to easily access administrative
area boundaries that were previously only accessible by manually
constructing :class:`~cartopy.feature.NaturalEarthFeature` instances
(as is done in the
:ref:`sphx_glr_gallery_lines_and_polygons_feature_creation.py` example).
(:pull:`898`)
* Daryl Herzmann and Robert Redl improved cartopy's internal conversion
between Shapely objects and Matplotlib Paths. (:pull:`885` & :pull:`1021`)
* Åsmund Steen Skjæveland fixed :meth:`cartopy.mpl.geoaxes.GeoAxes.tissot`
to use the documented units of kilometres, where before it had been using
metres. (:pull:`904`)
* Andrew Dawson wrote a new tutorial for the user guide:
:ref:`understanding_transform`. (:pull:`914`)
.. figure:: tutorials/understanding_transform-6.png
:target: tutorials/understanding_transform.html
:align: center
* Daniel Kirkham and Daryl Herzmann made significant improvements to the
stability of polygon transformation. The changes reduce the frequency
of messages such as
``Unidentified problem with geometry, linestring being re-added`` and
``Self-intersection at or near point <X> <Y>`` occurring.
(:pull:`974` and :pull:`903`)
* Chris Holdgraf and Corinne Bosley worked collaboratively to bring
`sphinx-gallery <https://github.com/sphinx-gallery/sphinx-gallery>`_ to the
cartopy docs. (:pull:`969`)
* Ray Bell neatened up many of the examples to explicitly pass the coordinate
system when calling :meth:`~cartopy.mpl.geoaxes.GeoAxes.set_extent`.
(:pull:`975`)
* Ryan May changed the default zorder of LAND and OCEAN to -1, thus fixing
an issue with LAND/OCEAN appearing above some data elements such as
vectors. (:pull:`916`)
* Kevin Donkers added the 60 UTM projections example to the gallery
in :pull:`954`:
.. figure:: gallery/miscellanea/images/sphx_glr_utm_all_zones_001.png
:target: gallery/miscellanea/utm_all_zones.html
:align: center
* Andrey Kiselev added support for reading shapes with a third (Z) dimension.
(:pull:`958`)
* Corinne Bosley standardised the docstring format for improved readability
and visual consistency. (:pull:`987`)
* Cartopy now no longer enables :func:`shapely.speedups` at cartopy import
time. (:pull:`990`)
* Mahé Perrette and Ryan May collaborated to improve the
:class:`~cartopy.crs.Stereographic` projection. (:pull:`929`)
-----------
What's New in cartopy 0.15
==========================
:Release: 0.15.0
:Date: 1st February 2017
Features
--------
* The :class:`cartopy.crs.Mercator` class now allows a ``latitude_true_scale``
to be specified.
* A ``tiles`` url can now be passed directly to the
:class:`cartopy.io.img_tiles.GoogleTiles` class.
* The :meth:`~cartopy.mpl.geoaxes.GeoAxes.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 :class:`~cartopy.crs.NearsidePerspective` projection has been added.
* Optional keyword arguments can now be supplied to the
:meth:`~cartopy.mpl.geoaxes.GeoAxes.add_wmts` method, which will be passed to
the OGC WMTS ``gettile`` method.
* New additions to the gallery:
.. figure:: gallery/miscellanea/images/sphx_glr_axes_grid_basic_001.png
:target: gallery/miscellanea/axes_grid_basic.html
:align: center
:scale: 70
.. figure:: gallery/web_services/images/sphx_glr_reprojected_wmts_001.png
:target: gallery/web_services/reprojected_wmts.html
:align: center
:scale: 70
.. figure:: gallery/web_services/images/sphx_glr_wmts_time_001.png
:target: gallery/web_services/wmts_time.html
:align: center
:scale: 70
-----------
What's New in cartopy 0.14
==========================
:Release: 0.14.0
:Date: 24th March 2016
Features
--------
* Zachary Tessler and Raj Kesavan added the :class:`cartopy.crs.Sinusoidal` projection,
allowing MODIS data to be visualised in its native projection. Additionally, a
prepared :data:`cartopy.crs.Sinusoidal.MODIS` projection has been made available for
convenience.
* Joseph Hogg and Daniel Atton Beckmann added the :class:`cartopy.geodesic.Geodesic`
class which wraps the proj.4 geodesic library. This allows users to solve the direct and
inverse geodesic problems (calculating distances between points etc). It also contains a
convenience function that returns geodetic circles. This is used by
:meth:`cartopy.mpl.geoaxes.GeoAxes.tissot` which draws Tissot's indicatrices on the axes.
.. figure:: gallery/lines_and_polygons/images/sphx_glr_tissot_001.png
:target: gallery/lines_and_polygons/tissot.html
:align: center
:scale: 70
* The SRTM3 data source has been changed to the `LP DAAC Data Pool
<https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/data_access/data_pool>`_. The Data Pool is more
consistent, fixing several missing tiles, and the data is void-filled.
Consequently, the :func:`cartopy.srtm.fill_gaps` function has been deprecated
as it has no purpose within the STRM context. The
SRTM example has also been updated to skip the void-filling step.
Additionally, this data source provides SRTM at a higher resolution of
1 arc-second, which may be accessed via :class:`cartopy.io.srtm.SRTM1Source`.
* All downloaders will use secure connections where available. Not
every service supports this method, and so those will use non-secured
HTTP connections instead. (See :pull:`736` for full details.)
* Cartopy now supports, and is tested against, Matplotlib 1.3 and 1.5 as well as
NumPy 1.7, 1.8 and 1.10.
* Daniel Eriksson added a new example to the gallery:
.. figure:: gallery/scalar_data/images/sphx_glr_aurora_forecast_001.png
:target: gallery/scalar_data/aurora_forecast.html
:align: center
:scale: 70
Incompatible changes
--------------------
* :meth:`cartopy.crs.CRS.transform_point` now issues NaNs when invalid transforms are identified.
Deprecations
------------
* :data:`cartopy.crs.GOOGLE_MERCATOR` has been moved to :data:`cartopy.crs.Mercator.GOOGLE`.
-----------
What's new in cartopy 0.13
==========================
:Release: 0.13.0
:Date: 30th June 2015
Features
--------
* Andrea Smith fixed the cartopy CRS class such that 3d transforms such as :class:`cartopy.crs.Geocentric`
now correctly apply deg2rad and rad2deg. (:pull:`625`)
* Peter Killick fixed the cartopy.crs.Mercator projection for non-zero central longitudes. (:pull:`633`)
* Conversion between Matplotlib :class:`matplotlib.path.Path` and
:class:`shapely.geometry.Geometry <Shapely geometry>` using
:func:`cartopy.mpl.patch.path_to_geos` and :func:`cartopy.mpl.patch.geos_to_path` now
handles degenerate point paths.
* Update of tools/feature_download.py to allow mass download of feature data rather than
on-demand downloading.
* A new example was added to the gallery:
.. figure:: gallery/miscellanea/images/sphx_glr_eccentric_ellipse_001.png
:target: gallery/miscellanea/eccentric_ellipse.html
:align: center
:scale: 70
-----------
What's new in cartopy 0.12
==========================
:Release: 0.12.0
:Date: 14th April 2015
Features
--------
* We are very pleased to announce that Elliott Sales de Andrade was added to the cartopy
core development team. Elliott has added several new projections in this release, as well
as setting up cartopy's Python 3 testing on TravisCI and generally improving the cartopy
codebase.
* Installing cartopy became much easier for conda users. A ``scitools`` channel has been
added which makes getting cartopy and all of its dependencies on Linux, OSX and
Windows possible with::
conda install -c scitools cartopy
* Support for Python 3, specifically 3.3 and 3.4, has been added. Some features that depend
on OWSLib will not be available as it does not support Python 3.
* Two new projections, :class:`~cartopy.crs.AzimuthalEquidistant` and
:class:`~cartopy.crs.AlbersEqualArea` have been added. See the :ref:`cartopy_projections`
for the full list of projections now available in cartopy.
* The Web Map Service (WMS) interface has been extended to support on-the-fly reprojection
of imagery if the service does not support the projection of the map being drawn.
The following example demonstrates the process by adding WMS imagery to an Interrupted
Goode Homolosine map - unsurprisingly this WMS service does not provide IGH imagery, so
cartopy has had to reproject them from a projection the WMS does support:
.. figure:: gallery/web_services/images/sphx_glr_wms_001.png
:target: gallery/web_services/wms.html
:align: center
:scale: 70
* Peter Killick added an interface for accessing MapBox tiles using the MapBox
Developer API. A MapBox client can be created with,
:class:`~cartopy.io.img_tiles.MapboxTiles` and as with the other imagery from a simple URL
based imagery service, it can be added to a :class:`~cartopy.mpl.geoaxes.GeoAxes` with the
:meth:`~cartopy.mpl.geoaxes.GeoAxes.add_image` method. The following example demonstrates the
interface for another source of imagery:
.. figure:: gallery/web_services/images/sphx_glr_image_tiles_001.png
:target: gallery/web_services/image_tiles.html
:align: center
:scale: 70
* Some improvements were made to the geometry transformation algorithm to improve
the stability of geometry winding. Several cases of geometries being incorrectly
inverted when transformed have now been resolved. (:pull:`545`)
* Mark Hedley added the ``central_rotated_longitude`` keyword to
:class:`cartopy.crs.RotatedPole`, which is particularly useful for limited area
rotated pole models in areas such as New Zealand:
.. plot::
:width: 200pt
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import cartopy.crs as ccrs
rpole = ccrs.RotatedPole(pole_longitude=171.77,
pole_latitude=49.55,
central_rotated_longitude=180)
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(10, 5))
ax = plt.axes(projection=rpole)
ax.set_global()
ax.gridlines()
ax.stock_img()
ax.coastlines()
plt.show()
* A new method has been added to the :class:`~cartopy.mpl.geoaxes.GeoAxes` to
allow control of the neatline of a map drawn with the Matplotlib interface.
The method, :meth:`~cartopy.mpl.geoaxes.GeoAxes.set_boundary`, takes a
:class:`matplotlib Path<matplotlib.path.Path>` object, which means that
arbitrary shaped edges can be achieved:
.. figure:: gallery/miscellanea/images/sphx_glr_star_shaped_boundary_001.png
:target: gallery/miscellanea/star_shaped_boundary.html
:align: center
:scale: 70
* A new SRTM3 RasterSource has been implemented allowing interactive pan/zoom
of 3 arc-second elevation data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
The SRTM example has also been updated to use the new interface.
* New additions to the gallery:
.. figure:: gallery/miscellanea/images/sphx_glr_un_flag_001.png
:target: gallery/miscellanea/un_flag.html
:align: center
:scale: 70
.. figure:: gallery/lines_and_polygons/images/sphx_glr_always_circular_stereo_001.png
:target: gallery/lines_and_polygons/always_circular_stereo.html
:align: center
:scale: 70
.. figure:: gallery/miscellanea/images/sphx_glr_tube_stations_001.png
:target: gallery/miscellanea/tube_stations.html
:align: center
:scale: 70
.. figure:: gallery/web_services/images/sphx_glr_wms_001.png
:target: gallery/web_services/wms.html
:align: center
:scale: 70
.. figure:: gallery/web_services/images/sphx_glr_image_tiles_001.png
:target: gallery/web_services/image_tiles.html
:align: center
:scale: 70
Deprecations
------------
* The SRTM module has been re-factored for simplicity and to take advantage
of the new :ref:`raster source interface <raster-source-interface>`. Some
methods have therefore been deprecated and will be removed in future
releases. The function :func:`cartopy.io.srtm.srtm` has been replaced with
the :meth:`cartopy.io.srtm.SRTM3Source.single_tile` method. Similarly,
:func:`cartopy.io.srtm.srtm_composite` and
:func:`cartopy.io.srtm.SRTM3_retrieve` have been replaced with the
:meth:`cartopy.io.srtm.SRTM3Source.combined` and
:meth:`cartopy.io.srtm.SRTM3Source.srtm_fname` methods respectively.
* The :class:`cartopy.io.RasterSource.fetch_raster` interface has been
changed such that a sequence of :class:`cartopy.io.LocatedImage` must be
returned, rather than a single image and its associated extent.
* The ``secant_latitudes`` keyword in :class:`cartopy.crs.LambertConformal` has
been deprecated in favour of ``standard_parallels``.
-----------
What's new in cartopy 0.11
==========================
:Release: 0.11.0
:Date: 19 June 2014
* Richard Hattersley added :func:`~cartopy.crs.epsg` support for generating
a Cartopy projection at run-time based on the EPSG code of a projected
coordinate system. This mechanism utilises https://epsg.io/ as a coordinate
system resource and employs EPSG request caching using
`pyepsg <https://github.com/rhattersley/pyepsg>`_
* Phil Elson added :class:`~cartopy.io.ogc_clients.WMSRasterSource` which
provides interactive pan and zoom OGC web services support for a Web Map
Service (WMS) aware axes. This capability may be added to an axes via the
:meth:`~cartopy.mpl.geoaxes.GeoAxes.add_wms` method. Generic interactive
slippy map panning and zooming capability is managed through the new
:class:`~cartopy.mpl.slippy_image_artist.SlippyImageArtist` and use of the
:meth:`~cartopy.mpl.geoaxes.GeoAxes.add_raster` method.
* :class:`~cartopy.io.ogc_clients.WMTSRasterSource` was added by Richard
Hattersley to provide interactive pan and zoom OGC web services support for
a Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) aware axes, which is available through the
:meth:`~cartopy.mpl.geoaxes.GeoAxes.add_wmts` method. This includes support
for the Google Mercator projection and efficient WMTS tile caching. This new
capability determines how to match up the available tiles projections
with the target projection and chooses the zoom level to best match the pixel
density in the rendered image.
.. figure:: gallery/web_services/images/sphx_glr_wmts_001.png
:target: gallery/web_services/wmts.html
:align: center
:scale: 70
* Thomas Lecocq added functionality to :mod:`cartopy.io.srtm` allowing
intelligent filling of missing elevation data, as well as a function to
compute elevation shading for relief style mapping. An example has been added
which uses both of these functions to produce a grayscale shaded relief map
* Lion Krischer extended the capability of
:class:`~cartopy.io.img_tiles.GoogleTiles` to allow support for **street**,
**satellite**, **terrain** and **street_only** style Google Map tiles.
* Nat Wilson's contribution brought us a major step closer to Python 3 compatibility.
* Support for the :class:`~cartopy.crs.UTM` projection was added by Mark Hedley.
* Andrew Dawson has added a new convenience utility function
:func:`~cartopy.util.add_cyclic_point` to add a cyclic point to an array and
optionally to a corresponding 1D coordinate.
* Andrew Dawson added formatters for producing longitude/latitude tick labels for
rectangular projections. The formatters are customizable and can be used to produce
nice tick labels in a variety of styles:
.. figure:: gallery/gridlines_and_labels/images/sphx_glr_tick_labels_001.png
:target: gallery/gridlines_and_labels/tick_labels.html
:align: center
:scale: 70
-----------
What's new in cartopy 0.10
==========================
:Release: 0.10.0
:Date: 17 January 2014
We are very pleased to announce that Andrew Dawson was added to the cartopy
core development team. In this release Andrew has single-handedly
implemented comprehensive vector transformation and visualisation
capabilities, including:
* The ability to transform vector fields between different coordinate
reference systems via the :meth:`~cartopy.crs.CRS.transform_vectors`
CRS method.
* :meth:`GeoAxes.quiver <cartopy.mpl.geoaxes.GeoAxes.quiver>` and
:meth:`GeoAxes.barbs <cartopy.mpl.geoaxes.GeoAxes.barbs>` for arrow and
barb plotting. More information is available at :ref:`vector_plotting`.
* A regridding function for "regularising" a vector field in the target
coordinate system. See also
:func:`cartopy.vector_transform.vector_scalar_to_grid`. Both
:meth:`~cartopy.mpl.geoaxes.GeoAxes.quiver` and
:meth:`~cartopy.mpl.geoaxes.GeoAxes.barbs` accept the ``regrid_shape``
keyword to trigger this behaviour automatically.
* :meth:`GeoAxes.streamplot <cartopy.mpl.geoaxes.GeoAxes.streamplot>` adds
the ability to draw streamlines in any projection from a vector field in
any other projection.
.. figure:: gallery/vector_data/images/sphx_glr_barbs_001.png
:target: gallery/vector_data/barbs.html
:align: center
:scale: 70
-----------
What's new in cartopy 0.9
=========================
:Release: 0.9.0
:Date: 12 September 2013
* We are very pleased to announce that Bill Little was added to the cartopy
core development team. Bill has made some excellent contributions to cartopy,
and `his presentation at EuroScipy'13 on
"Iris & Cartopy" <https://www.euroscipy.org/2013/schedule/presentation/35/>`_
was voted best talk of the conference.
* Other talks and tutorials during this release cycle include Phil Elson's `talk at SciPy'13
(with video) <https://conference.scipy.org/scipy2013/presentation_detail.php?id=132>`_,
`Thomas Lecocq's tutorial at EuroSciPy
<https://www.euroscipy.org/2013/schedule/presentation/27/>`_
and a forthcoming `talk at FOSS4G <http://2013.foss4g.org/conf/programme/presentations/29/>`_.
* Christoph Gohlke updated cartopy to support Windows 7.
* The Plate Carree projection was updated to fully handle arbitrary globe definitions.
* Peter Killick updated the Mercator class' default globe to WGS84. His refactor paved the way
for some follow on work to fully implement the Google Spherical Mercator (EPSG:3857) projection.
.. figure:: gallery/scalar_data/images/sphx_glr_eyja_volcano_001.png
:target: gallery/scalar_data/eyja_volcano.html
:align: center
:scale: 70
* The TransverseMercator class saw a tidy up to include several common arguments (:pull:`pull request <309>`)
* Bill Little added the Geostationary projection to allow geolocation of satellite imagery.
.. figure:: gallery/scalar_data/images/sphx_glr_geostationary_001.png
:target: gallery/scalar_data/geostationary.html
:align: center
:scale: 70
* Byron Blay added the :class:`Lambert conformal conic projection <cartopy.crs.LambertConformal>`.
-----------
What's new in cartopy 0.8
=========================
:Release: 0.8.0
:Date: 3 June 2013
* Bill Little added support for the OSNI projection and enhanced the image nest capability. (:pull:`263`)
* :class:`cartopy.io.img_nest.Img` has been extended to include a
:func:`cartopy.io.img_nest.Img.from_world_file` static method for
easier loading of georeferenced images.
* Phil Elson added a major performance improvement when plotting data from PlateCarree onto a
PlateCarree map. (:pull:`260`)
* Byron Blay and Richard Hattersley added a :class:`cartopy.crs.Globe` class to encapsulate ellipsoid and optionally
datum information for CRSs. Globe handling in many projections, including Stereographic, has been added.
-----------
What's new in cartopy 0.7
=========================
:Release: 0.7.0
:Date: 21 Mar 2013
* Carwyn Pelley added support for 2D arrays of points to :meth:`cartopy.crs.CRS.transform_points`. (:pull:`192`)
* Phil Elson added control for the gridlines and tick labels drawn with
:meth:`cartopy.mpl.geoaxes.GeoAxes.gridlines`. (:pull:`238`)
* Various documentation enhancements have been added. (:pull:`247`, :pull:`244` :pull:`240` and :pull:`242`)
This is a quick release which targets two very specific requirements. The goals outlined in the development plan at
``v0.6`` still remain the primary target for ``v0.8`` and beyond.
-----------
What's new in cartopy 0.6
=========================
:Release: 0.6.0
:Date: 19 Feb 2013
* Patrick Peglar added the ability to draw ticks for some limited projections
when using the :py:func:`~cartopy.mpl.geoaxes.GeoAxes.gridlines` method on an Axes.
* Phil Elson and Carwyn Pelley extended the cartopy documentation to include
new tutorials such as :ref:`using_the_shapereader`.
* Ian Edwards :doc:`added a new example <gallery/miscellanea/favicon>` to create a favicon for cartopy.
* Phil Elson :doc:`added a new example <gallery/lines_and_polygons/hurricane_katrina>` to show polygon analysis
and visualisation with Shapely and cartopy.
* Edward Campbell added a new :py:class:`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 :py:class:`~cartopy.io.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 :py:data:`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 (:issue:`ticket <153>`).
* 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.
-----------
What's new in cartopy 0.5
=========================
:Release: 0.5.0
:Date: 7 Dec 2012
This document explains the new/changed features of cartopy in version 0.5.
Release 0.5 of cartopy continues the work to expand the feature-set of
cartopy to encompass common operations, and provide performance
improvements.
Cartopy 0.5 features
--------------------
A summary of the main features added with version 0.5:
* An improved feature API to support future expansion and
sophistication, and a wider range of pre-defined Natural Earth
datasets.
Incompatible changes
--------------------
None
Deprecations
------------
* The method :meth:`Axes.natural_earth_shp()` has been replaced by the
method :meth:`Axes.add_feature()` and the :mod:`cartopy.feature`
module.
Feature API
-----------
A new features API is now available, see :doc:`tutorials/using_the_shapereader`.
.. figure:: gallery/lines_and_polygons/images/sphx_glr_features_001.png
:target: gallery/lines_and_polygons/features.html
:align: center
:scale: 70