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Version 0.5 (December 7, 2012)
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This document explains the new/changed features of cartopy in version 0.5.
Release 0.5 of cartopy continues the work to expand the feature-set of
cartopy to encompass common operations, and provide performance
improvements.
Features
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A summary of the main features added with version 0.5:
* An improved feature API to support future expansion and
sophistication, and a wider range of pre-defined Natural Earth
datasets.
* A new features API is now available, see :doc:`../tutorials/using_the_shapereader`.
.. figure:: ../gallery/lines_and_polygons/images/sphx_glr_features_001.png
:target: ../gallery/lines_and_polygons/features.html
:align: center
:scale: 70
Deprecations
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* The method ``Axes.natural_earth_shp()`` has been replaced by the
method :meth:`Axes.add_feature()` and the :mod:`cartopy.feature`
module.
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