Matplotlib 3.0 Cookbook

How it works...

Here is an explanation of the code:

• Download shape files (.shp) from the URLs mentioned in the code.
• The first one has the locations of weather stations and the second one has the boundaries of the world.
• These files come in a ZIP file containing multiple different files with different file extensions. We should extract all of them and put them in a working directory. Although we use only a .shp file in the code to read, it internally calls other files in the ZIP file.
• gpd.read_file() reads the contents of the .shp file. The first read loads the weather station location data and the second read loads the borders data.
• world_wc.plot(ax=ax) plots weather station locations on the map.
• world_borders.boundary.plot() plots boundary ...