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mercantile

Spherical mercator tile and coordinate utilities
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

mercantile has 2.5M monthly downloads and 453 GitHub stars. Version 1.2.1, first published in 2014.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2021.

It is used by 77 tracked packages, including contextily, altair-tiles and supermercado.

GitHub topics include satellite, pxm and imagery.

Downloads
Day
83.2K
Week
563.4K
Month
2.5M
Stars
453
Forks
69
Issues
5
Version
1.2.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
55
Adoption
70
Community
75
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
8 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,543,492
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
2,543,492
Stars
453
Stars per 1k downloads
0.18
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
• Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
80,481
Month daily avg
84,783
Momentum
-5.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
• Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
BSD
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
1903 days ago
Total releases
37
Releases/year
3.0
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
• Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
679
Monthly downloads
2,543,492
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
68
 
Issue Burden
11.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
984.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1895d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 47.0K
Windows 592
macOS 239

Python Versions

3.11
46.6% 21.7K
3.12
37.2% 17.3K
3.9
9.8% 4.5K
3.10
3.7% 1.7K
3.13
2.8% 1.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
40.4K
2. BR BR
4.1K
3. DE DE
1.1K
4. NL NL
1.0K
5. GB GB
327
6. CN CN
314
7. SG SG
299
8. CA CA
196
9. IL IL
178
10. IE IE
142
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD
First Release
March 26, 2014
Last Release
5 years ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
1.2.1
Total Releases
37
Contributors
679
Open PRs
7
Archived
No
Author
Sean Gillies
Python Versions
2.7 3
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
mapping web mercator tiles
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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