cartopy.feature.GSHHSFeature#

class cartopy.feature.GSHHSFeature(scale='auto', levels=None, **kwargs)[source]#

An interface to the GSHHS dataset.

See https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/gshhs.html

Parameters:

  • scale – The dataset scale. One of ‘auto’, ‘coarse’, ‘low’, ‘intermediate’, ‘high, or ‘full’ (default is ‘auto’).

  • levels – A list of integers 1-6 corresponding to the desired GSHHS feature levels to draw (default is [1] which corresponds to coastlines).

  • **kwargs – Keyword arguments to be used when drawing the feature. Defaults are edgecolor=’black’ and facecolor=’none’.

__init__(scale='auto', levels=None, **kwargs)[source]#

Methods

__init__([scale, levels])

geometries()

Return an iterator of (shapely) geometries for this feature.

intersecting_geometries(extent)

Return an iterator of shapely geometries that intersect with the given extent.

Attributes

crs

The cartopy CRS for the geometries in this feature.

kwargs

The read-only dictionary of keyword arguments that are used when creating the Matplotlib artists for this feature.