The python-awips package provides access to the entire AWIPS Maps Database for use in Python GIS applications. Map objects are returned as Shapely geometries (Polygon, Point, MultiLineString, etc.) and can be easily plotted by Matplotlib, Cartopy, MetPy, and other packages.

In this series, we work on some simpler tasks:

1. Making a line plot using matplotlib
2. Downloading a time-series of data from a THREDDS server
3. Plotting the data using matplotlib