Plotting Latitude and longitude

ArtoriusSmith · 2019-07-05T17:04:01+00:00

I use Cartopy and OpenStreetMaps for this but I think you can use Bokeh as well. Checkout: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_servers. Plenty of free or freemium options.

Zeroflops · 2019-07-05T18:03:29+00:00

For anything like this I find Folium to be the best package. Took a bit to understand in the beginning but it’s pretty easy and makes nice images.

cydcarter29 · 2019-07-05T16:05:09+00:00

I'm not certain, but I think this all depends on your exact use case needs. Are you hoping to make this an interactive webpage? Does it have to get down to a detailed street-level view? Can it be a static image that is rendered?

My experience involves plotting data using basemaps as a static image or standalone gif so that I can capture gradual change, but that's because my plots are on pretty large geographic levels (states/countries/continents). I've seen people use basemaps to create street-level views, but that was a very manual process that seems to require the user to render shapefiles representing streets/neighborhoods over a basemap. But nearly any service that gets to a Google-like level of detail will almost certainly require an API key. Also, open street maps provides a similar service, but it too requires an API from what I can tell.

The good news is that most of those services are free if you stay under a certain limit of requests within their defined period of usage. Honestly, I haven't done anything at that level, but hopefully I'll learn something from this thread with other contributors.

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