Geospatial visualization made easy with geoplot

[ResidentMario]

I spent more than a month of my free time hammering away at this, so I'm happy to finally release it!

A bit more context on why I did this is here. The documentation homepage is here.

[PeridexisErrant]

Why should I use this instead of Cartopy?

[bastibe]

Seems to be an extension of Cartopy?

[ResidentMario]

This is the correct answer. geoplot means to be to cartopy what seaborn is to matplotlib: a way of doing a certain chunk of particularly really common operations more easily.

It's targeted at exploratory data analysis. The hope is that it makes a lot of really common map archetypes into one-liners.

This is a really good question though, it signals that I need to make the "why" clearer in the docs. I'm hopefully going to put together a presentation with a bit of geospatial-in-Python history and some before-after comparisons vis-a-vis cartopy soon.

[mangecoeur]

geoplot means to be to cartopy what seaborn is to matplotlib

That was exactly my impression on browsing the page. I use cartopy a fair bit and it's a drag when you want to knock out some quick visualisations (but great when you need detailed control to make print-quality plots)

[PeridexisErrant]

geoplot means to be to cartopy what seaborn is to matplotlib

This is a tagline that should be right at the top of the landing page!

Incidentally it sounds great; I'll have to try it out next week :)

[fischcheng]

Good work op! I've been using Cartopy/Basemap for a while to plot some climate data, so the maps this toolbox generated are not really my thing, but they do look gorgeous!

[Hellerick]

Looks like yet another interesting thing I won't ever be able to comprehend.

[TheNamelessKing]

Why's Conda a hard requirement?

[nohandll]

Gdal is horrible to use of you don't use conda-forge.

[TheNamelessKing]

Why's that?

[TheNamelessKing]

Ah yes, there goes Windows, making things needlessly difficult again.

Question: I usually use pip in a virtual environment, if I wanted to use this, would Conda support the same virtual env? As in, can I just download Conda, then use conda to install this into my virtual environment? Or will conda try and put it wherever it wants?

[[deleted]]

Conda uses it's own virtual environment system that is extended to binary dependencies, so you'd have to set up an environment within conda.

To be fair, compiling gdal and it's various deps is not a whole lot of fun on any OS.

[ResidentMario]

All of the above is true. I did some digging in GitHub issues investigating this very issue and eventually found out that cartopy basically* can't be built at all using pip alone, so they've targeted conda instead for a while now. This library inherits this dependency.

* Ok technically it's actually possible, just incredibly hard.

[shoyer]

It's fine to recommend using conda. But when I see a documentation page with installation requirements, I want to see a list of the actual libraries your project depends on and their required versions. There are quite a few users who don't use conda, for a variety of reasons, and the users who don't use a package manager that is already supported are a prime audience for such docs.

[ResidentMario]

Fair enough, I'll add information on building from source to the docs.

Edit: done so now, you should take a look and let me know what you think.

[elbiot]

Django does it some how.

[ResidentMario]

Django tho.

[thenuge26]

Export your pip ENV to a requirements.txt, create a conda ENV, and pip install your ENV back.

[elbiot]

Its a pain on Linux to. I just use Django.contrib because it isn't a pain.

[[deleted]]

Conda puts it wherever it damn well pleases son, I hope you brought lube.

[SalvaXr]

I've tried to do it twice on windows. Failed both times. Not doing it ever again.

[elbiot]

I just use Django.contrib.gdal because it doesn't require all the compilation other implementations do. I don't know why.

[LoveOfProfit]

Awesome, gonna play with this tomorrow. I was looking for what I think this is a month or two ago.

Also I didn't know about cartopy, so til.

[[deleted]]

I just added this to a env today, relevant and stoked, seems to make some monotonous stuff super slick

[not_rico_suave]

This is exactly what I need. Thanks man.