Route map: Jarasandh killing

This route map is generated from data returned by /mb/v1/journeys/{name} endpoint, with full details (?expand=true) where {name} = Jarasandh killing.

The summary journey route is this:

"journeyRoute": [
    "Indraprastha",
    "Kurujangal to Kalakuta",
    "Kalakuta to the east to Mithila",
    "Mithila to Magadh",
    "Girivraj",
    "Girivraj to Indraprastha"
  ]

The detailed route information was obtained by using the ?expand=true query parameter.

The following components were used to generate the map:

• Country boundary dataset from Natural Earth, used for determining the geographic extent of India and surrounding regions
• Geocoding by using Nominatim
• Terrain and physical basemap tiles from Esri (World Physical Map layer)
• Python libraries:
  • GeoPy, for converting place names to geographic coordinates
  • Shapely, for creating point geometries for the locations
  • GeoPandas, for handling geospatial data structures and plotting the points
  • Matplotlib, for creating the figure and exporting the .png image
  • Contextily, for adding the terrain basemap tiles

The workflow is as follows:

1. Geocode the place names (GeoPy)
2. Create point geometries from the coordinates (Shapely)
3. Store the geometries in a geospatial data frame (GeoPandas)
4. Create the figure and axes (Matplotlib)
5. Add the terrain basemap tiles (Contextily)
6. Plot the locations and export the image (GeoPandas + Matplotlib)