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NCAR / VAPOR

VAPOR is the Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmosphere, and Solar Researchers
https://www.vapor.ucar.edu/
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Add support for rendering georeferenced shapefiles and the ability to download them on the fly #2696

Open clyne opened 3 years ago

clyne commented 3 years ago

Presently, VAPOR's georeferenced map drawing capability is limited to pre-bundled, GeoTIFF raster images. Most of the geospatial world uses georeferenced shape files to display political and land mass boundaries (and a variety of other georeferenced data). These shapefiles can be downloaded as needed from a running application. VAPOR should support display of vector shapefiles and the ability to download various commonly used forms as is done by other map plotting packages such as Python's Cartopy.

sgpearse commented 3 years ago

Bundling Cartopy might be worth exploring.

PS - Cartopy is what NOAA's Slider website uses. I believe it has a shapefile library that can be plotted in matplotlib.