GeoAxes¶

class GeoAxes(*args, **kwargs)[source]¶

Bases: proplot.axes.plot.PlotAxes

Axes subclass for plotting in geographic projections. Uses either cartopy or basemap as a “backend”.

Parameters

autoextent (bool, optional) – For cartopy axes only. Whether to automatically adjust map bounds based on plotted content or enforce global map extent. Default is rc['cartopy.autoextent'] = False.
circular (bool, optional) – For cartopy axes only. Whether to bound polar projections with circles rather than squares. Default is rc['cartopy.circular'] = True.
map_projection (Basemap or Projetion) – The cartopy or basemap projection instance.

Other Parameters

*args, **kwargs – Passed to Axes.

Note

This makes “longitude-latitude” coordinates the default for all plotting commands by passing transform=cartopy.crs.PlateCarree() when cartopy is the backend and latlon=True when basemap is the projection. Also, regardless of the backend, plotting is accomplished “cartopy-style” by calling plotting methods on the axes instance. You should not have to work with the Basemap instance directly.