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This release brings a lot of new functionality in preparation for 1.0 that we want to make available before fully releasing. This includes:

• In-session local caching with joblib (#85, #53)
• New providers infrastructure (#91, #66)
• Tile warping so maps can be expressed in CRSs other than Web Mercator (#49)

And other minor additions:

• [API BREAK] add_basemap now returns None instead of the ax passed (#92)
• Dropping cartopy as dependency (#50)
• Use of standard tile URLs (#73)
• Attribution text wrapping (#94, #95, #96) and optional font size (#76)
• Move codebase to black style (#87)

Install through pip:

pip install contextily==1.0rc2

Or conda:

conda install -c conda-forge contextily==1.0rc2

This release includes the following changes and improvements:

• Map search and Places API provided by @choldgraf
• Refactoring of code to incorporate Places API
• Fix of a bug that precluded rasterio/numpy to work properly with an updated version of the library
• Drop of support for Python 3.4

The release is available to install on pip:

pip install -U contextily

And on conda, using the conda-forge channel (thanks to @ocefpaf!):

conda install -c conda-forge contextily

This is the initial release of contextily. Basic functionality includes:

• Download and integrate tile maps on-the-fly with bounds2img.
• Download and save tile maps into raster files (GeoTIFF) with bounds2raster.
• Check for the required number of tiles with howmany.
• Support for all of Stamen's tiles.

Installation

Make sure the dependencies are installed and then run:

pip install contextily