GeoAxes.format¶
- GeoAxes.format(**kwargs)[source]¶
Modify the longitude and latitude labels, longitude and latitude map limits, geographic features, and more. Additional keyword arguments are passed to
Axes.format
andcontext
.- Parameters
lonlim, latlim (
(float
,float)
, optional) – For cartopy axes only. The approximate longitude and latitude boundaries of the map, applied withset_extent
. Basemap axes extents must be declared by passing keyword arguments toProj
.boundinglat (
float
, optional) – For cartopy axes only. The edge latitude for the circle bounding North Pole and South Pole-centered projections. Basemap bounding latitudes must be declared by passing keyword arguments toProj
.longrid, latgrid (
bool
, optional) – Whether to draw longitude and latitude gridlines. Default isrc.grid
=True
. Usegrid
to toggle both.longridminor, latgridminor (
bool
, optional) – Whether to draw “minor” longitude and latitude lines. Default isrc.gridminor
=False
. Usegridminor
to toggle both.lonlocator, latlocator (
locator spec
, optional) – Used to determine the longitude and latitude gridline locations. Passed to theLocator
constructor. Can be string, float, list of float, ormatplotlib.ticker.Locator
instance.For basemap or cartopy < 0.18, the defaults are
'deglon'
and'deglat'
, which correspond to theLongitudeLocator
andLatitudeLocator
locators (adapted from cartopy). For cartopy >= 0.18, the defaults are'dmslon'
and'dmslat'
, which uses the same locators withdms=True
. This selects gridlines at nice degree-minute-second intervals when the map extent is very small.lonlines, latlines (optional) – Aliases for
lonlocator
,latlocator
.lonlocator_kw, latlocator_kw (dict-like, optional) – Keyword arguments passed to the
matplotlib.ticker.Locator
class.lonlines_kw, latlines_kw (optional) – Aliases for
lonlocator_kw
,latlocator_kw
.lonminorlocator, latminorlocator, lonminorlines, latminorlines (optional) – As with
lonlocator
andlatlocator
but for the “minor” gridlines. The defaults arerc['grid.lonminorstep']
andrc['grid.latminorstep']
.lonminorlocator_kw, latminorlocator_kw, lonminorlines_kw, latminorlines_kw (optional) – As with
lonlocator_kw
andlatlocator_kw
but for the “minor” gridlines.latmax (
float
, optional) – The maximum absolute latitude for longitude and latitude gridlines. Longitude gridlines are cut off poleward of this latitude for all basemap projections and cartopy projections before cartopy 0.18. Default is80
.labels (
bool
, optional) – Setslonlabels
andlatlabels
toTrue
. Default isrc['grid.labels']
=False
.lonlabels, latlabels – Whether to label longitudes and latitudes, and on which sides of the map. There are four different options:
Boolean
True
. Indicates the left side for latitudes, bottom side for longitudes.A string or tuple of strings indicating the side names, e.g.
'left'
for latitudes or'bottom'
for longitudes.A string indicating the side names with single characters, e.g.
'lr'
for latitudes or'bt'
for longitudes.A boolean 2-tuple indicating whether to draw labels on the
(left, right)
sides for latitudes, or(bottom, top)
sides for longitudes.A boolean 4-tuple indicating whether to draw labels on the
(left, right, bottom, top)
sides, as with the basemapdrawmeridians
anddrawparallels
labels
keyword.
lonformatter, latformatter (
formatter spec
, optional) – Formatter used to style longitude and latitude gridline labels. Passed to theFormatter
constructor. Can be string, list of string, ormatplotlib.ticker.Formatter
instance.For basemap or cartopy < 0.18, the defaults are
'deglon'
and'deglat'
, which correspond toSimpleFormatter
presets with degree symbols and cardinal direction suffixes. For cartopy >= 0.18, the defaults are'dmslon'
and'dmslat'
, which uses cartopy’sLongitudeFormatter
andLatitudeFormatter
formatters withdms=True
. This formats gridlines that do not fall on whole degrees as “minutes” and “seconds” rather than decimal degrees.lonformatter_kw, latformatter_kw (dict-like, optional) – Keyword arguments passed to the
matplotlib.ticker.Formatter
class.loninline, latinline (
bool
, optional) – For cartopy axes only. Whether to draw inline longitude and latitude gridline labels. Defaults arerc['grid.loninline']
=False
andrc['grid.latinline']
=False
.rotatelabels (
bool
, optional) – For cartopy axes only. Whether to rotate longitude and latitude gridline labels. Default isrc['grid.rotatelabels']
=False
.labelpad (
float
, optional) – For cartopy axes only. The padding between the map boundary and longitude and latitude gridline labels. Default isrc['grid.labelpad']
=4.0
. If float, units are points. If string, interpreted byunits
.dms (
bool
, optional) – For cartopy axes only. Specifies whether the default locators and formatters should use “minutes” and “seconds” for gridline labels on small scales rather than decimal degrees. Setting this toFalse
is equivalent to specifyingax.format(lonlocator='deglon', latlocator='deglon')
andax.format(lonformatter='deglon', latformatter='deglat')
.nsteps (
int
, optional) – For cartopy axes only. The number of interpolation steps used to draw gridlines. Default isrc['grid.nsteps']
=250
.land, ocean, coast, rivers, lakes, borders, innerborders (
bool
, optional) – Toggles various geographic features. These are actually therc.land
,rc.ocean
,rc.coast
,rc.rivers
,rc.lakes
,rc.borders
, andrc.innerborders
settings passed tocontext
. The style can be modified using additionalrc
settings.For example, to change
rc['land.color']
, useax.format(landcolor='green')
, and to changerc['land.zorder']
, useax.format(landzorder=4)
.reso (
{'lo', 'med', 'hi', 'x-hi', 'xx-hi'}
) – For cartopy axes only. Resolution of geographic features. For basemap axes, this must be passed toProj
.
- Other Parameters
title (
str
, optional) – The axes title.abc (
bool
orstr
, optional) – The “a-b-c” subplot label style. Must contain the charactera
orA
, for example'a.'
, or'A'
. IfTrue
then the default style of'a'
is used. Thea
orA
is replaced with the alphabetic character matching thenumber
. Ifnumber
is greater than 26, the characters loop around to a, …, z, aa, …, zz, aaa, …, zzz, etc.abcloc, titleloc (
str
, optional) – Strings indicating the location for the a-b-c label and main title. The following locations are valid (defaults arerc['abc.loc']
='left'
andrc['title.loc']
='center'
):Location
Valid keys
center above axes
'center'
,'c'
left above axes
'left'
,'l'
right above axes
'right'
,'r'
lower center inside axes
'lower center'
,'lc'
upper center inside axes
'upper center'
,'uc'
upper right inside axes
'upper right'
,'ur'
upper left inside axes
'upper left'
,'ul'
lower left inside axes
'lower left'
,'ll'
lower right inside axes
'lower right'
,'lr'
abcborder, titleborder (
bool
, optional) – Whether to draw a white border around titles and a-b-c labels positioned inside the axes. This can help them stand out on top of artists plotted inside the axes. Defaults arerc['abc.border']
=True
andrc['title.border']
=True
.abcbbox, titlebbox (
bool
, optional) – Whether to draw a white bbox around titles and a-b-c labels positioned inside the axes. This can help them stand out on top of artists plotted inside the axes. Defaults arerc['abc.bbox']
=False
andrc['title.bbox']
=False
.abc_kw, title_kw (dict-like, optional) – Additional settings used to update the a-b-c label and title with
text.update()
.titlepad (
float
, optional) – The padding for the inner and outer titles and a-b-c labels in arbitrary units (default is points). Default isrc['title.pad']
=5.0
.titleabove (
bool
, optional) – Whether to try to put outer titles and a-b-c labels above panels, colorbars, or legends that are above the axes. Default isrc['title.above']
=True
.abctitlepad (
float
, optional) – The horizontal padding between the a-b-c label and title when they are in the same location. Default isrc['abc.titlepad']
=4.0
.ltitle, ctitle, rtitle, ultitle, uctitle, urtitle, lltitle, lctitle, lrtitle (
str
, optional) – Additional titles in specific positions. This works as an alternative to theax.format(title='Title', titleloc=loc)
workflow and permits adding more than one title-like label to a single axes.a, alpha, fc, facecolor, ec, edgecolor, lw, linewidth, ls, linestyle (optional) – Additional settings applied to the background patch, and their shorthands. Defaults are
rc['axes.alpha']
,rc['axes.facecolor']
,rc['axes.edgecolor']
,rc['axes.linewidth']
, and'-'
, respectively.rowlabels, collabels, llabels, tlabels, rlabels, blabels – Aliases for
leftlabels
andtoplabels
, and forleftlabels
,toplabels
,rightlabels
, andbottomlabels
, respectively.leftlabels, toplabels, rightlabels, bottomlabels (
list
ofstr
, optional) – Labels for the subplots lying along the left, top, right, and bottom edges of the figure. The length of each list must match the number of subplots along the corresponding edge.leftlabelpad, toplabelpad, rightlabelpad, bottomlabelpad (
float
, optional) – The padding between the labels and the axes content in arbitrary units (default is points). Defaults arerc['leftlabel.pad']
,rc['toplabel.pad']
,rc['rightlabel.pad']
, andrc['bottomlabel.pad']
leftlabels_kw, toplabels_kw, rightlabels_kw, bottomlabels_kw (dict-like, optional) – Additional settings used to update the labels with
text.update()
.figtitle – Alias for
suptitle
.suptitle (
str
, optional) – The figure “super” title, centered between the left edge of the lefmost column of subplots and the right edge of the rightmost column of subplots, and automatically offset above figure titles. This is an improvement on matplotlib’s “super” title, which just centers the text between figure edges.suptitlepad (
float
, optional) – The padding between the super title and the axes content in arbitrary units (default is points). Default isrc['suptitle.pad']
.suptitle_kw (optional) – Additional settings used to update the super title with
text.update()
.rc_mode (
int
, optional) – The context mode passed tocontext
.rc_kw (dict-like, optional) – An alternative to passing extra keyword arguments. See below.
**kwargs – Passed to
proplot.config.Configurator.context
and used to update the axes-relevantrc
settings. For example,abcstyle='A.'
modifies therc['abc.style']
setting,titleloc='left'
modifies therc['title.loc']
setting,gridminor=True
modifies therc.gridminor
setting, andgridbelow=True
modifies therc['grid.below']
setting. Many of the keyword arguments documented above are actually applied by updating therc
settings then retrieving the updated settings.