contextily 1.7.0-foss-2024a

contextily is a small Python 3 package to retrieve tile maps from the internet. It can add those tiles as basemap to matplotlib figures or write tile maps to disk into geospatial raster files. Bounding boxes can be passed in both WGS84 (EPSG:4326) and Spheric Mercator (EPSG:3857).

Accessing contextily 1.7.0-foss-2024a

To load the module for contextily 1.7.0-foss-2024a please use this command on the BEAR systems (BlueBEAR and BEAR Cloud VMs):

📋 module load bear-apps/2024a
module load contextily/1.7.0-foss-2024a

BEAR Apps Version

2024a

Architectures

EL8-emeraldrapids — EL8-icelake — EL8-sapphirerapids

The listed architectures consist of two parts: OS-CPU. The OS used is represented by EL and there are several different processor (CPU) types available on BlueBEAR. More information about the processor types on BlueBEAR is available on the BlueBEAR Job Submission page.

Extensions

• contextily 1.7.0
• mercantile 1.2.1
• xyzservices 2025.11.0

More Information

For more information visit the contextily website.

Dependencies

This version of contextily has a direct dependency on: foss/2024a geopy/2.4.1-GCCcore-13.3.0 matplotlib/3.9.2-gfbf-2024a Pillow/10.4.0-GCCcore-13.3.0 Python/3.12.3-GCCcore-13.3.0 Python-bundle-PyPI/2024.06-GCCcore-13.3.0 rasterio/1.4.3-foss-2024a

Other Versions

These versions of contextily are available on the BEAR systems (BlueBEAR and BEAR Cloud VMs). These will be retained in accordance with our Applications Support and Retention Policy.

Last modified on 4th June 2026