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Tag: cartopy

How to find the right cartopy projection?

I need to plot some data in Germany with cartopy. The data part of my plot works fine (so I deleted it for now). Unfortunately, the shape of the country is deformed due to the projection. I am currently using the PlateCarree projection, but changing it to Orthographic or others created the same plot. How to improve the shape? Code:

View Alaskan/East Siberian Side of Arctic in Cartopy

I have some points plotted on a NorthPolarStero map in Cartopy using the following code But I would actually like to plot just the top half of this image, like this: If I change the “`ax.set_extent“ line to either: [90, -90, 90, 66] or [-90, 90, 90, 66] It just gives me the bottom half of the plot, like this:

Why do my google tiles look poor in a Cartopy map?

I am a bit puzzled by the rendering of google tiles with Cartopy. The map looks extremely poor compared to the standard google map look. Example (code from https://ocefpaf.github.io/python4oceanographers/blog/2015/06/22/osm/): Generates: Which looks very poor—look at the pixelated rendering of text label and street number—compared to the same image shown on the linked website: Changing zoom level does not seem to

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