Cartes

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Cartes is a Python library providing facilities to produce meaningful maps.

Cartes builds on top of most common Python visualisation libraries (Matplotlib/Cartopy, Altair, ipyleaflet) and data manipulation libraries (Pandas, Geopandas) and provides mostly:

• a comprehensive set of geographic projections, built on top of Cartopy and Altair/d3.js;
• an interface to OpenstreetMap Nominatim and Overpass API. Result of requests are parsed in a convenient format for preprocessing and storing in standard formats;
• beautiful default parameters for quality visualisations;
• advanced caching facilities. Do not download twice the same content in the same day.

The cartes library is a powerful asset to publish clean, lightweight geographical datasets; and to produce decent geographical visualisations in few lines of code.

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Installation

Latest release:

Recommended for beginners, with conda:

conda install -c conda-forge cartes

or with pip:

pip install cartes

Development version, with uv:

git clone https://github.com/xoolive/cartes
cd cartes
uv sync --dev

Documentation

Documentation available at https://cartes-viz.github.io/