contextily: context geo tiles in Python¶
contextily is a small Python 3 (3.8 and above) package to retrieve
tile maps from the internet. It can add those tiles as basemap to
matplotlib figures or write tile maps to disk into geospatial raster
files. Bounding boxes can be passed in both WGS84 (EPSG:4326) and
Spheric Mercator (EPSG:3857). See the notebook
contextily_guide.ipynb for usage.
Tiles¶
The current tile providers that are available in contextily are the
providers defined in the
`xyzservices <https://xyzservices.readthedocs.io>`__ package. This
includes some popular tile maps, such as:
The standard OpenStreetMap map tiles
Toner, Terrain and Watercolor map tiles by Stamen Design
Dependencies¶
mercantilenumpymatplotlibpillowrasteriorequestsgeopyjoblibxyzservices
Installation¶
Python 3 only (3.8 and above)
Latest released version, using pip:
pip3 install contextily
or conda:
conda install contextily
Contributors¶
contextily is developed by a community of enthusiastic volunteers.
You can see a full list
here.
If you would like to contribute to the project, have a look at the list of open issues, particularly those labeled as good first contributions.
License¶
BSD compatible. See LICENSE.txt