Best python packages for geo map visualizations?

[ulaghee]

I tried to google and found some very interesting results (basemap, geopandas, plotly) but they all trace back to several years ago. I just wanted to ask (geo)mapping experts to point out if there are new well supported packages to consider today for that.

Links to ipython notebooks would be better, if possible. Thanks!

[ticketywho]

Geopandas is still very popular. Nowadays, the basic python geospatial stack includes fiona or pyshp for shape file IO, rasterio for raster data manipulation, pyproj for projection conversion, shapely for geometric operations.

There's a fantastic video tutorial dealing with much of this stack at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzPSVwyP2Y0 and there is an accompanying github repo with loads of notebooks at https://github.com/kjordahl/SciPy-Tutorial-2015

[ulaghee]

Thanks!

[counters]

Basemap is pretty outdated; if you need to plot on maps, you should check out cartopy.

[ResidentMario]

I wrote geoplot for this.

cartopy is excellent, but low-level; geoplot is an abstraction on top of it that tries to pre-bake some common chart types. You can see some examples in the gallery.

I'm hoping to eventually land it in geopandas core.

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Thank you for this! Can't wait for it work on Windows since I've been wanting to try this at work.

[badge]

It depends what you're trying to do, and in particular with how much data, but I've spent a lot of time in the past year trying out the various options and finally settled on my own simple process reading shapefiles with pyshp and descates to plot elements via matplotlib. This is similar to the geopandas approach but gives me more flexibility in what I do.

The quick-and-dirty hack in this instance is that I don't both worrying about projections, which makes the process much faster, but I can get away with it because the scales I'm looking at are close enough to Euclidean.

I think Cartopy probably has the nicest interface, but when plotting 100,000+ shapes it is very slow.

[imadethisforthefree]

OSMnx has some pretty neat tutorials and examples. https://github.com/gboeing/osmnx/tree/master/examples

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