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This PR will introduce a deprecation warning for basemap. The rationale behind deprecation is as follows: basemap was deprecated in the past, but it seemed like development was picking up steam again. It has been a few months since I submitted a few PRs that would update basemap with modern tooling (in particular numpy, see matplotlib/basemap#604, matplotlib/basemap#623, matplotlib/basemap#622). Not sure what the status is currently but little activity has been seen on that repo for a while. Furthermore, cartopy has more powerful features with good matplotlib support. Lastly, it would streamline our development as we only have to focus on a singular backend and
geo.py
needs a refactor in my opinion.I open this PR up for community members to chip in, but I don't see a good reason to not do this.