README.md

contextily: context geo tiles in Python

contextily is a small Python 3 package to retrieve and write to disk tile maps from the internet into geospatial raster files. Bounding boxes can be passed in both WGS84 (EPSG:4326) and Spheric Mercator (EPSG:3857). See the notebook contextily_guide.ipynb for usage.

• Toner and Terrain map tiles by Stamen Design, under CC BY 3.0. Data by OpenStreetMap, under ODbL.
• Watercolor map tiles by Stamen Design, under CC BY 3.0. Data by OpenStreetMap, under CC BY SA.

Dependencies

• mercantile
• numpy

• matplotlib

• pillow
• rasterio
• requests
• geopy
• joblib

Installation

Python 3 only:

pip3 install contextily

Contributors

• Dani Arribas-Bel (@darribas)
• Chris Holdgraf (@choldgraf)
• Filipe Fernandes (@ocefpaf)

License

BSD compatible. See LICENSE.txt