Re: [Matplotlib-users] cool screenshot

[Ted D. <ted...@jp...>]

Very cool!

At some point in the future we'll be interested in modifying/extending the 
basemap module to allow other data sets.  In particular, we're going to 
need to do maps of Mars using the Mars laser altimeter database (MOLA).

http://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/missions/mgs/megdr.html

I wonder if the ability use GIS data sets could be worked in at the same 
time using some type of common architecture?

Ted

At 12:34 PM 5/13/2005, Sean Gillies wrote:
>On May 13, 2005, at 1:26 PM, Jeff Whitaker wrote:
>
>>
>>I just added the orthographic projection to the basemap toolkit - you can 
>>now make really nifty pseudo-satellite views of global data.
>>
>>Here's an example:
>>
>>http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/people/jeffrey.s.whitaker/ortho.png
>>
>>This was generated using pcolor by the plotmap_ortho.py example script 
>>now in CVS.  It requires the pcolor masked-array patch I sent to the 
>>matplotlib-devel list this morning.   For some reason, pylab.contour goes 
>>berserk when you try to contour data on this projection - I;m still 
>>working on that.
>>
>>-Jeff
>
>Jeff,
>
>That is slick!  You're using PROJ4, right?  I'm happy to see a working 
>application of orthographic projection.  We need to talk sometime about 
>how to hook pylab up to GIS data through GDAL/OGR or to web services using 
>WMS/WFS.
>
>cheers,
>Sean
>
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>Sean Gillies
>sgillies at frii dot com
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