Cartes

Source code on github.

Cartes is a Python library providing facilities to produce meaningful maps.

Cartes builds on top of most common Python visualisation libraries (Matplotlib/Cartopy, Altair, ipyleaflet) and data manipulation libraries (Pandas, Geopandas) and provides mostly:

• a comprehensive set of geographic projections, built on top of Cartopy and Altair/d3.js;

• an interface to OpenstreetMap Nominatim and Overpass API. Result of requests are parsed in a convenient format for preprocessing and storing in standard formats;

• beautiful default parameters for quality visualisations;

• advanced caching facilities. Do not download twice the same content in the same day.

The cartes library is a powerful asset to publish clean, lightweight geographical datasets; and to produce decent geographical visualisations in few lines of code.

• Installation
• CRS and projections
• Atlas
• OpenStreetMap
• Data visualisation
• Example gallery
• Troubleshooting
• Alternative libraries