diff --git a/torchgeo/datasets/eddmaps.py b/torchgeo/datasets/eddmaps.py
index d3a046993a..c651a06b18 100644
--- a/torchgeo/datasets/eddmaps.py
+++ b/torchgeo/datasets/eddmaps.py
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@
 import pandas as pd
 from rasterio.crs import CRS
 
+import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
+import matplotlib.patches as patches
+from typing import Tuple, Optional
+
 from .errors import DatasetNotFoundError
 from .geo import GeoDataset
 from .utils import BoundingBox, Path, disambiguate_timestamp
@@ -79,7 +83,7 @@ def __init__(self, root: Path = 'data') -> None:
             coords = (x, x, y, y, mint, maxt)
             self.index.insert(i, coords)
             i += 1
-
+            
     def __getitem__(self, query: BoundingBox) -> dict[str, Any]:
         """Retrieve metadata indexed by query.
 
@@ -103,3 +107,104 @@ def __getitem__(self, query: BoundingBox) -> dict[str, Any]:
         sample = {'crs': self.crs, 'bounds': bboxes}
 
         return sample
+
+
+def plot(
+    self,
+    query: Optional[BoundingBox] = None,
+    title: str = "EDDMapS Dataset",
+    point_size: int = 20,
+    point_color: str = 'blue',
+    query_color: str = 'red',
+    annotate: bool = False,
+    figsize: Tuple[int, int] = (12, 8)
+) -> None:
+    
+    """ Plot the dataset points with optional query bounding box
+    Args:
+        
+        query: The query to look for points, in the form of a bounding box: (minx,maxx,miny,maxy,mint,maxt)
+        title: Title of the plot
+        point_size: The size of the points plotted
+        point_color: The default color of the points, in case no such map is provided
+        query_color: color for the points which fall into the query
+        annotate: Controls if the points with timestamps are annotated
+        figsize: Size of drawn figure in the shape: (width, height)
+        
+        Raises:
+
+    ValueError: When no points could be plotted because none were valid.
+
+    """
+    
+    # Filtering valid lat and long rows
+    valid_data = self.data.dropna(subset = [ 'Latitude' , 'Longitude'])
+    if valid_data.empty:
+        raise ValueError("No valid lat/long data to plot.")
+
+    fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=figsize)
+
+    # Plot-at-all points
+
+    ax.scatter(
+
+    valid_data['Longitude'],
+
+    valid_data['Latitude'],
+
+    s = point_size,
+
+    c = point_color,
+
+    edgecolor = 'k',
+
+    alpha = 0.6,
+
+    label = 'All Observations'
+
+    )
+
+    #highlighting queried points (If) provided bounding box query
+
+    if query:
+        minx, maxx, miny, maxy, mint, maxt = query
+        hits = self.index.intersection((minx,maxx,miny,maxy,mint, maxt))
+                  
+    # Get coordinates of hits to highlight
+    query_points = valid_data.iloc[[list(hits)]]
+    ax.scatter(
+        query_points['Longitude'],
+        query_points['Latitude'],
+        s = point_size * 1.5,
+        c = query_color,
+        edgecolor = 'white',
+        alpha = 0.8,
+        label = 'Query Results'
+              )
+    
+    # Draw a bounding box
+    bbox_patch = patches.rectangle(
+        (minx, miny), maxx - minx, maxy - miny,
+        linewidth = 2, edgecolor = 'red', facecolor='none', linestyle = '--', label = "Query Bounding Box"
+    )
+    ax.add_patch(bbox_patch)
+    
+    # Optional annotations
+    if annotate:
+        for _, row in valid_data.iterrows():
+            ax.annotate(
+                row['ObsDate'], (row['Longitude'], row['Latitude']),
+                fontsize=8, alpha=0.7, textcoords="offset points", xytext=(0, 5), ha='center'
+            )
+
+    # Plot styling
+    ax.set_title(title, fontsize=14)
+    ax.set_xlabel("Longitude", fontsize=12)
+    ax.set_ylabel("Latitude", fontsize=12)
+    ax.grid(True, linestyle='--', alpha=0.5)
+    ax.legend()
+
+    plt.show()
+
+
+