Version 0.5 (December 7, 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.
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.
A new features API is now available, see Using the cartopy shapereader.
Deprecations¶
The method
Axes.natural_earth_shp()has been replaced by the methodAxes.add_feature()and thecartopy.featuremodule.