Support for missing data in Geopandas plotting

plot_missing_data.ipynb

Hi, this is helpful. But when I was trying to run the cell gdf.plot(column='pop_est', figsize=(15, 10), legend=True, missing_kwds={'color': 'lightgrey'}), I got an error message saying that AttributeError: 'PatchCollection' object has no property 'missing_kwds'. Could you please help me figure out why does this happen, Thanks.

p.s. I tried this in geopandas version 0.4.1 and geopandas version 0.6.2, both have the same issue.

Hi @Iorent, this functionality is only in development version of geopandas and will be released in version 0.7.0. If you install it directly from master branch it’ll work as illustrated here.

@ martinfleis. Thanks. May I ask when will the v0.7.0 be released?

That has not been decided yet. It can be couple of weeks or couple of months. You can install development version now using pip install git+git://github.com/geopandas/geopandas.git to use this functionality.

Hello, @martinfleis! Thanks for the tutorial.

However, I cannot update the geopandas from v0.6.1 to v0.7.0, and therefore I'm having the same trouble as @shuai-zhou with the 'missing_kwds' property.
How can I "install it directly from master branch" as you mentioned? Sorry, I'm new at programming and I don't even know what that means hahahah

Thank you in advance!

@caminhathiago don't see it as a tutorial, it was meant to illustrate the new functionality during its development.

You need GeoPandas 0.7 to use it, so if you can't update this will not work. Installing from master is this: pip install git+git://github.com/geopandas/geopandas.git, but I would not recommend using dev version since this is already part of stable one. Why you can't update?

@martinfleis Oh, I see!
I tryed reinstalling by conda, conda-forge and also updating by the same means (I use Anaconda). So, as I don't know much about packages handling, by using pip, I'm afraid to get things out of order (as once happened). Would you still recommend the pip method in this case?

@caminhathiago ordered according to preference, you can try following to update:

1. update from conda-forge: conda install -c conda-forge geopandas=0.7.0
   You may need to add conda-forge channel first (conda config --env --add channels conda-forge)

2. update using pip from PyPI: pip install geopandas -U

3. install dev version from GitHub: pip install git+git://github.com/geopandas/geopandas.git

@martinifleis Thanks a lot, that was really helpfull.
In case you want to know, the first method (with conda forge) did not work, but the seccond one worked just fine.