v1.3.1

This is a patch release that fixes the following issues:

• Provide support for Python 3.10 on Windows and GNU/Linux (x86 and x64).
• Provide precompiled binary wheels for Python 3.10 on Windows and GNU/Linux (x86 and x64).
• Improve the error message shown when requesting high- or full-resolution datasets and basemap-data-hires is not installed.

Please visit the CHANGELOG for a complete list of changes.

v1.3.0

This release focuses on the packaging of the library. In summary:

• The library is split in three parts: basemap, basemap-data and basemap-data-hires.
• Precompiled wheels for the three packages are available in PyPI.
• Licensing is updated and clarified. The base license is MIT, with other components whose license is LGPL-2.1-only or LGPL-3.0-or-later.
• Main branch is moved to the name develop, while master is kept for creating releases. Please submit future PR to the develop branch.

Please visit the CHANGELOG for a complete list of changes.

Final Release

This is quite likely the last release ever of basemap. Please move development efforts over to Cartopy!

This release fixes some incompatibilities with matplotlib v3.3+ and also newer versions of libgeos (tested against v1.6.1). Also fixes some incompatibilities with the make.py.

New Management

See Changelog for details