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Cartopy - a cartographic python library with matplotlib support
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Improve documentation of cartopy.feature.NaturalEarthFeature #2360

Open ketakopter opened 3 months ago

ketakopter commented 3 months ago

Description

I'm having a hard time trying to plot terrain data. Anyway, to the point: the documentation of cartopy.feature.NaturalEarthFeature is not very helpful, especially in regards to the name argument:

What are other available names? The class documentation refers to https://www.naturalearthdata.com/, but there are no names listed.

Some hint on how to build a proper name would be appreciated, or more examples in the gallery.

### Cartopy version 0.22
dopplershift commented 3 months ago

It's tricky because Natural Earth doesn't really document those names either. You have to go to the download page and look at the URLs to pull out the name.

A pull request trying to simplify and succinctly document this would be welcome.