Version 1.5.0

Major feature:

• The bokeh backend now supports arbitrary geographic projections, no longer just Web Mercator (#170)

New components:

• Added Graph element to plot networks of connected nodes (#115)

• Added TriMesh element and datashading operation to plot small and large irregular triangular meshes (#115)

• Added QuadMesh element and datashading operation to plot small and large, irregular rectilinear and curvilinear meshes (#116)

• Added VectorField element and datashading operation to plot small and large quiver plots and other collections of vectors (#122)

• Added HexTiles element to plot data binned into a hexagonal grid (#147)

• Added Labels element to plot a large number of text labels at once (as data rather than as annotations) (#147)

New features:

• Hover tool now supports displaying geographic coordinates as longitude and latitude (#158)

• Added a new geoviews.tile_sources module with a predefined set of tile sources (#165)

• Wrapped the xESMF library as a regridding and interpolation operation for rectilinear and curvilinear grids (#127)

• HoloViews operations including datashade and rasterize now retain geographic crs coordinate system (#118)

Enhancements:

• Overhauled documentation and added a gallery (#121)