[GIS] Change Color in GeoPandas Plot

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My question has overlap with Changing colours in GeoPandas?, but unfortunately still unanswered: I want to plot a multiline shapefile in 1 color.

import geopandas as gpd
multiline_example = gpd.read_file('multiline_example_filepath.shp')
multiline_example.plot()

This works fine so far, except that the lines have multiple random colors:

Plot with random colors

Now I simply want to assign 1 color for all lines. Is this possible, and if so, how?

What I found so far:

On the GeoPandas site, some plotting-examples are given (http://geopandas.readthedocs.io/en/latest/mapping.html). Here, they simply use 

multiline_example.plot(color='green')

However, if I try this, I get the following error:

TypeError: plot_dataframe() got an unexpected keyword argument 'color'

Why doesn't this work?

I have been able to choose a column (where the color is dependent on the column values), as well as a colormap, but the results are still different colors for different lines.

multiline_example.plot(colormap = 'Greens')
multiline_example.plot(column = 'a_column_name')

Simply by updating from GeoPandas 0.1.1 to 0.3.0. 

multiline_example.plot(color='green')

works fine now.

Best Answer

Try creating your own color map with matplotlib:

from matplotlib.colors import ListedColormap

cmap = ListedColormap(['red'], name='allred')
GeoSeries(bldgs).plot(cmap=cmap)

enter image description here

BTW I think I'm using a different version to you as colormap changed to cmap for me (0.3.0).

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