IntroducingWeb Mapping Services

Summary

We learned how to use cartopy to plot maps and we will now look at plotting basemap images in various projections by combining cartopy with online repositories of map data. Specifically, we will use web map services (WMS) and web map tile services (WMTS) to access satellite imagery.

Let’s get started

We have a number of imports that we will need almost every time.

If we are going to plot anything then we need to include matplotlib.

How to find out what layers there are: