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Add a Natural Earth background¶
An alternative to Google Static Maps
import salem
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# get the map from a predefined grid
grid = salem.mercator_grid(transverse=False, center_ll=(16., 0.),
extent=(8e6, 9e6))
smap = salem.Map(grid)
# Add the background (other resolutions include: 'mr', 'hr')
smap.set_rgb(natural_earth='lr')
# done!
smap.visualize()
plt.show()
Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 4.348 seconds)