Adding axis labels: ax.set_xlabel("Longitude (degrees)")

[benjimin]

One often expects to label the axes (not just the tick marks) on a map or plot, e.g. with strings "Lat."/"Lon." or "Northing (metres)"/"Easting (metres)". However, Axes.set_xlabel and set_ylabel (nor matplotlib.pyplot.xlabel etc) seem broken in cartopy, and GeoAxes.gridlines seems to provide no alternative either. (Currently seems to require manual positioning of new Text artists as a work-around.)

I think this is a worthwhile feature (labeling of figure axes tends to be heavily drilled in highschool and undergraduate science courses) and that cartopy should support whatever same syntax for setting axis labels as matplotlib encourages.

Also discussed here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35479508/cartopy-set-xlabel-set-ylabel-not-ticklabels

[jypeter]

Same problem here, no axes labels after using the following

my_plot = my_figure.add_subplot(1, 1, 1, projection=ccrs.PlateCarree())
my_plot.set_xlabel('Longitude')
my_plot.set_ylabel('Latitude')

I thought I was doing something wrong. I will follow the stackoverflow answers, but it would be nice to have the code above behave as expected by default

[JediMed]

Same issue