Maps with Layers tutorial doesn't work

Whenever I specify ax=anything, a blank map is output.

python 3.6.4 matplotlib 2.1.2 geopandas 0.3.0

%matplotlib inline
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import geopandas as gpd

world = gpd.read_file(gpd.datasets.get_path('naturalearth_lowres'))
cities = gpd.read_file(gpd.datasets.get_path('naturalearth_cities'))
cities = cities.to_crs(world.crs)

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
# displays blank axes
ax.set_aspect('equal')
world.plot(ax=ax, color='white', edgecolor='black')
# <matplotlib.axes._subplots.AxesSubplot at 0x7fe0dd4500b8>
# <matplotlib.figure.Figure at 0x7fe0dd3f8710>

cities.plot(ax=ax, marker='o', color='red', markersize=5)
# <matplotlib.axes._subplots.AxesSubplot at 0x7fe0dd4500b8>
# <matplotlib.figure.Figure at 0x7fe104448ef0>

plt.show() # nothing
plt.savefig("test2.png") # file is a white rectangle

plotting any of these independently displays the expected output

[jorisvandenbossche]

Closing this as I don’t think there is anything to do on the geopandas side. But please further comment if you still have problems with this!

[taimur38]

@jorisvandenbossche with fig.savefig() I do manage to get the correct figure saved as a png, thank you.

but I still can’t get anything to show inline