Note
This tutorial was generated from an IPython notebook that can be downloaded here.
Create your own region¶
Creating own regions is straightforward.
Import regionmask and check the version:
/home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/regionmask/conda/v0.2.0/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py:1357: UserWarning: This call to matplotlib.use() has no effect because the backend has already been chosen; matplotlib.use() must be called before pylab, matplotlib.pyplot, or matplotlib.backends is imported for the first time. warnings.warn(_use_error_msg)
'0.2.0'
Assume you have two custom regions in the US.
You also need to provide numbers, names and abbreviations:
Again we can plot the outline of the defined regions
and obtain a mask:
Use shapely Polygon¶
If you have the region defined as a shapely polygon, this also works: