Support for the ‚lesser known countries’

[ggegoge]

Could I get borderlines for i.e. Poland’s ‚countys’? Where can I get list of the supported countries for that kind of features? I’d like to make them visibl for a choropleth kinda map.

sorry if I’m asking about something that is in documentation. I guess I wasn’t able to find it

[pelson]

Hi @TichyProgs.

Cartopy deals with shapefiles in a generic way. If you can point it at a shapefile with the information, cartopy can plot it on a map.

A quick google turns up the following:

• https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/eea-reference-grids-2/gis-files/poland-shapefile
• https://www.citypopulation.de/Poland.html

Please note: I have no knowledge of these sites, and cannot guarantee their authenticity and/or correctness

Once you have the shapefiles, you should be able to do something like:

• https://ocefpaf.github.io/python4oceanographers/blog/2015/02/02/cartopy_folium_shapefile/
• https://modelingguru.nasa.gov/docs/DOC-2602
• https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/187867/cartopy-plotting-shapefiles

These kind of questions are probably best asked at StackOverflow (using the cartopy tag), this is inevitably a popular question to have about cartopy.

Hope this helps, and please do consider posting your solution as a Q & A on StackOverflow!

Thanks,

@pelson

[ggegoge]

Hi @pelson, thanks for the answer, that's exactly what I wanted to know/receive. In future I'd ask this kind of questions os stackoverflow as you propose I think but it's new for me to use packages that are still under active GitHub development if you know what I mean (i.e. matplotlib is already well established)

I'll try to find a suiting me solution in next few days and I'll post it as Q&A on SO as you asked me to do

Cheers, @TichyProgs