Version 1.6.3

Minor release, mostly bugfixes. Includes contributions from @philippjfr, @ahuang11, and @rsignell-usgs.

New features:

• Add geo features for US states (#312)
• Add ESRI Ocean tile layers (#320)

Bug fixes and minor improvements:

• Add dtype methods to geometry interfaces (#345)
• Ensure that Line Shape is not filled in matplotlib (#326)
• Avoid zooming in beyond tile/axis resolution (#325)
• Fix gridlines for gv matplotlib overlay (#308)

Version 1.6.2

Minor release, mostly bugfixes. Includes contributions from @philippjfr.

New feature:

• Add adaptive geometry resampling operation, allowing working with large shape files interactively, increasing their resolution when zooming in (#282)

Bug fixes and minor improvements:

• Fixed img project if src and target projection are equal (#288)
• Added plotting backend load hooks (#286)
• Do not import regrid operations by default
• Fixed re-initialization of backend (#284)
• Improved handling of non-default central longitudes (#281)
• Small fix for Path longitude wrapping (#279)

Version 1.6.1

Includes contributions from @ahuang11 (unlimit vdims) and @philippjfr.

Bug fixes and minor improvements:

• Unlimit the vdims for various elements (#253)
• Improve handling of geopandas and empty geometries (#278)
• Updated opts syntax in gallery examples (#277)
• Fixed bugs projecting Graphs (#276)
• Ensure backend is initialized on import (#275)
• Added call method to tile sources, to restore constructor-like behavior from previous versions (#274)

Version 1.6.0

This is a major release with a number of important enhancements and bug fixes:

Features

• Complete overhaul of geometry handling including support for geometry with holes and geometry dictionary interface (#244, #249)
• Support for holoviews FreehandDraw stream (#219)
• Add gv.load_tiff and gv.RGB.load_tiff helpers (#221, #233)
• Added support for holoviews padding option (#228)

Enhancements

• Drop bokeh save tool when tile source is used (#257)
• Compatibility with cartopy 0.17 (#254)

Bug fixes

• Improved handling of Point geometries in geopandas dataframe (#204)
• Fixes for projecting draw tool data (#205)
• Improvements and fixes for handling of QuadMesh projections (#250)
• Fixes for Image longitude wrapping (#260)

Version 1.5.1

This is a bug fix release which includes a number of important fixes and enhancements.

Enhancements:

• Geopandas interface now supports point geometries (#186)
• Geopandas data now supported in the .to conversion API (#186)

Fixes:

• Fixed some issues to do with tile source attributions (#176)
• Fixed bug projecting rectilinear QuadMesh (#178)
• Improvements to path/polygon projection and clipping (#179)

Version 1.5.0

Major feature:

• The bokeh backend now supports arbitrary geographic projections, no longer just Web Mercator (#170)

New components:

• Added Graph element to plot networks of connected nodes (#115)

• Added TriMesh element and datashading operation to plot small and large irregular triangular meshes (#115)

• Added QuadMesh element and datashading operation to plot small and large, irregular rectilinear and curvilinear meshes (#116)

• Added VectorField element and datashading operation to plot small and large quiver plots and other collections of vectors (#122)

• Added HexTiles element to plot data binned into a hexagonal grid (#147)

• Added Labels element to plot a large number of text labels at once (as data rather than as annotations) (#147)

New features:

• Hover tool now supports displaying geographic coordinates as longitude and latitude (#158)

• Added a new geoviews.tile_sources module with a predefined set of tile sources (#165)

• Wrapped the xESMF library as a regridding and interpolation operation for rectilinear and curvilinear grids (#127)

• HoloViews operations including datashade and rasterize now retain geographic crs coordinate system (#118)

Enhancements:

• Overhauled documentation and added a gallery (#121)

Version 1.4.3

Enhancements:

• Ensured that HoloViews operations such as datashade, aggregate and regrid do not drop the coordinate reference system on the input element (#118)
• Unified WMTS support across backends, bokeh and matplotlib now support rendering {X}_{Y}_{Z} based web tiles (#120)
• Handle projecting of empty Elements (#131)
• Set Image element NaN coloring to transparent (f1f2960)
• Overhauled website with new theme (#106)

Version 1.4.0

• Allow specifying WMTS element with just the URL (#89)
• Added GeoPandas interface to plot geometries more easily (#88)
• Added further projection operations allowing most geographic element types to be explicitly projected (#88)
• Enabled MercatorTicker on geographic bokeh plots ensuring axes are labelled with latitudes and longitudes (#64)

Version 1.3.2

This is a minor release reapplying a fix which was accidentally reverted in 1.3.1:

• The WMTS Element now accepts a tile source URL directly for the bokeh backend (PR #83)

Version 1.3.1

This is a minor release with one small improvements:

• The WMTS Element now accepts a tile source URL directly for the bokeh backend (PR #83)