Ryan May

For completeness, this should include the hurricane symbol.

This might be a useful way to attack it: https://matplotlib.org/examples/pylab_examples/scatter_star_poly.html

EEEEK! That's no bueno. That's no rant, that's...super annoying and would definitely cause problems elsewhere in no-internet environments. My preferred solution, though, would be to make the code that loads...

Well, `staticdata` is also there for examples. I can see a case to be made that for things needed for metpy features, we should just be shipping the data files...

@eliteuser26 For the county/state shapefiles we won't make it any less accessible than it already is. The question is whether they should be part of the install package, or only...

Let me clarify: the current situation is that MetPy, through the use of pooch, automatically downloads the shapefiles for you—no manual intervention needed. The only alternative I’m considering is including...

*sigh* Yeah, just encountered it myself, though it seems to be resolved or at least working somewhat for me. But yes, we'll have to do something about this so that...

So while storage is cheap, we don't want people to have to download a 100M package for MetPy alone--packages like that are the ones I swear at when I'm teaching...

So the data files used by *features* (not tests/examples) in MetPy: * US Counties shapefiles: 22M * US States shapesfiles: 6.3M * Station tables: 7M So we're looking at 35M...

Just to be clear, on Linux it's trying to write to `$HOME/.cache`, so the problem there is that $HOME for Apache is set to `/user/share/httpd`. @nawendt What files are you...