cartopy caches natural_earth shp files

[darkblueb]

cartopy by default, in order to cache natural_earth and other data, will create a directory tree

    /home/user/.local/share/cartopy/shapefiles

It would be an improvement to manage the duplication for the Live series. Relative to the size of a modern hard disk, even a VM, it is not very much disk space, however.

[darkblueb]

this URL now fails :

http://nacis.org/naturalearth/110m/physical/ne_110m_coastline.zip

[wildintellect]

URL appears to have changed slightly

http://naciscdn.org/naturalearth/110m/physical/ne_110m_coastline.zip

[darkblueb]

patch checked in as

/home/user/gisvm/app-data/cartopy/a.patch

[darkblueb]

for a cost of 460K on disk, shapefiles could be pre-cached in the way cartopy expects them

[darkblueb]

see svn commit revision 12193 close ticket after test

[kalxas]

Can someone please confirm this as fixed?

[kalxas]

Ticket retargeted after milestone closed

[kalxas]

Ticket retargeted after milestone closed

[darkblueb]

side note- this has been working for several versions.. no testers to confirm.. onwards..

it looks like IRIS provides iris.sample_data_path .. cartopy equivalent ?

[kalxas]

Ticket retargeted after milestone closed