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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/882#issuecomment-226252313 https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/882 226252313 MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDIyNjI1MjMxMw== 1217238 2016-06-15T17:03:07Z 2016-06-15T17:03:07Z MEMBER

I'm pretty sure it's possible to add cartopy axes to a FacetGrid using the subplot_kwds argument already. Unfortunately, I don't have any examples handy since I wrote that code at my last job.

What this code does is add the projection=ccrs.PlateCarree() automatically, along with a few other geo specific niceties. I made that suggestion for cartopy itself (https://github.com/SciTools/cartopy/issues/645) but it hasn't been acted on yet.

I agree that this is a good fit for xarray because the plotting API is difficult to extend externally. One nice way to present this to users could be to make a geoplot accessor that works like the current plot accessor but adds these geo specific options. Then you could write, e.g., data.geoplot.pcolormesh().

 
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