I have been using Basemap for years in my Python scripting. Now I would like to slowly switch to Python 3, but Basemap is no longer officially supported there. There seems to be some workaround (such as using customized versions of Basemap), but personally I do not want to try that. So, I guess it is time to find an alternative, such as Cartopy.
In this post, I leave a record of my learning more about Cartopy, as well as some useful tricks (that I found out after hours of experiments..) Continue reading