Bug#730670: ITP: python-cartopy - A library providing cartographic tools for python.

[Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org>]

control: owner !

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Andreas Hilboll <andreas@hilboll.de> wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Andreas Hilboll <andreas@hilboll.de>
>
> * Package name    : python-cartopy
>   Version         : 0.9.0
>   Upstream Author : British Crown Copyright 2010 - 2013, Met Office
> * URL             : http://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/
> * License         : LGPLv3
>   Programming Lang: Python
>   Description     : A library providing cartographic tools for python.
>
> Some of the key features of cartopy are:
>
> object oriented projection definitions
> point, line, polygon and image transformations between projections
> integration to expose advanced mapping in matplotlib with a simple and
> intuitive interface
> work-in-progress mechanisms for accessing specialist data such as those
> from the "Shuttle Radar Topography Mission” (SRTM) and the "Global
> Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shoreline” database (GSHHS).

I will take over this ITP, being already the maintainer of mpl and
basemap makes sense fro all of them to be under the same umbrella.

Cheers,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi