SciPy Recipes

How it works…

In the first line of code, we import the cartopy.crs module with the ccrs alias. We then create a Figure object and an Axes object with the following call:

ax = fig.add_subplot(1, 1, 1,    projection=ccrs.Mollweide())

Notice that we need to specify the projection option in the add_subplot() method call. Cartopy makes available several different projections for drawing global maps.

Next, we add to the figure the continent coastlines and a stock image of the globe with the following commands:

ax.coastlines()ax.stock_img()

The first time you run these commands, cartopy downloads the data it needs to produce the map.

The next step is to add data to the map. In a more realistic example, we would be using a dataset that includes some ...