.. _sphx_glr_gallery_miscellanea:

.. _miscellanea:

Miscellanea
===========


.. raw:: html

  <div id='sg-tag-list' class='sphx-glr-tag-list'></div>


.. raw:: html

    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnails">

.. thumbnail-parent-div-open

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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example demonstrates how to animate gridded data using pcolormesh().">

.. only:: html

  .. image:: /gallery/miscellanea/images/thumb/sphx_glr_animate_surface_thumb.gif
    :alt:

  :doc:`/gallery/miscellanea/animate_surface`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Animating a gridded surface</div>
    </div>


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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="The actual code to generate cartopy&#x27;s favicon.">

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  .. image:: /gallery/miscellanea/images/thumb/sphx_glr_favicon_thumb.png
    :alt:

  :doc:`/gallery/miscellanea/favicon`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Cartopy Favicon</div>
    </div>


.. raw:: html

    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="The actual code to produce cartopy&#x27;s logo.">

.. only:: html

  .. image:: /gallery/miscellanea/images/thumb/sphx_glr_logo_thumb.png
    :alt:

  :doc:`/gallery/miscellanea/logo`

.. raw:: html

      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Cartopy Logo</div>
    </div>


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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example displays all 60 zones of the Universal Transverse Mercator projection next to each other in a figure.">

.. only:: html

  .. image:: /gallery/miscellanea/images/thumb/sphx_glr_utm_all_zones_thumb.png
    :alt:

  :doc:`/gallery/miscellanea/utm_all_zones`

.. raw:: html

      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Displaying all 60 zones of the UTM projection</div>
    </div>


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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example demonstrates plotting data on an eccentric ellipse. The data plotted is a topography map of the asteroid Vesta. The map is actually an image, which is defined on an equirectangluar projection relative to an ellipse with a semi-major axis of 285 km and a semi-minor axis of 229 km. The image is reprojected on-the-fly onto a geostationary projection with matching eccentricity.">

.. only:: html

  .. image:: /gallery/miscellanea/images/thumb/sphx_glr_eccentric_ellipse_thumb.png
    :alt:

  :doc:`/gallery/miscellanea/eccentric_ellipse`

.. raw:: html

      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Displaying data on an eccentric ellipse</div>
    </div>


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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example demonstrates how to modify the boundary/neatline of an axes. We construct a star with coordinates in a Plate Carree coordinate system, and use the star as the outline of the map.">

.. only:: html

  .. image:: /gallery/miscellanea/images/thumb/sphx_glr_star_shaped_boundary_thumb.png
    :alt:

  :doc:`/gallery/miscellanea/star_shaped_boundary`

.. raw:: html

      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Modifying the boundary/neatline of a map in cartopy</div>
    </div>


.. raw:: html

    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example demonstrates how to create a minimal outline map of a defined area of land such as a continent, with optional labels at specified locations within the region, in the form of a recreation of the Monorail Map from The Simpsons with humorously oversized labelling (to imitate handwriting/scribbles) and sparsity of marked locations (which are all fictional).">

.. only:: html

  .. image:: /gallery/miscellanea/images/thumb/sphx_glr_simpsons-monorail-map_thumb.png
    :alt:

  :doc:`/gallery/miscellanea/simpsons-monorail-map`

.. raw:: html

      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Recreation of the Monorail Map from The Simpsons</div>
    </div>


.. raw:: html

    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Produces a map showing London Underground station locations with high resolution background imagery provided by OpenStreetMap.">

.. only:: html

  .. image:: /gallery/miscellanea/images/thumb/sphx_glr_tube_stations_thumb.png
    :alt:

  :doc:`/gallery/miscellanea/tube_stations`

.. raw:: html

      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Tube Stations</div>
    </div>


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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="A demonstration of the power of Matplotlib combined with cartopy&#x27;s Azimuthal Equidistant projection to reproduce the UN flag.">

.. only:: html

  .. image:: /gallery/miscellanea/images/thumb/sphx_glr_un_flag_thumb.png
    :alt:

  :doc:`/gallery/miscellanea/un_flag`

.. raw:: html

      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">UN Flag</div>
    </div>


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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example demonstrates how to use cartopy GeoAxes with AxesGrid from the mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1. The script constructs an axes_class kwarg with Plate Carree projection and passes it to the AxesGrid instance. The AxesGrid built-in tick labelling is not used, and instead a standard procedure of creating grid lines is used. Then some fake data is plotted.">

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  .. image:: /gallery/miscellanea/images/thumb/sphx_glr_axes_grid_basic_thumb.png
    :alt:

  :doc:`/gallery/miscellanea/axes_grid_basic`

.. raw:: html

      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Using Cartopy and AxesGrid toolkit</div>
    </div>


.. thumbnail-parent-div-close

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    </div>


.. toctree::
   :hidden:

   /gallery/miscellanea/animate_surface
   /gallery/miscellanea/favicon
   /gallery/miscellanea/logo
   /gallery/miscellanea/utm_all_zones
   /gallery/miscellanea/eccentric_ellipse
   /gallery/miscellanea/star_shaped_boundary
   /gallery/miscellanea/simpsons-monorail-map
   /gallery/miscellanea/tube_stations
   /gallery/miscellanea/un_flag
   /gallery/miscellanea/axes_grid_basic