Re: [Matplotlib-users] problem with contour() & basemap; contours overlapping map

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

Jouni K. Seppänen wrote:
> Pablo Romero <rom...@ho...> writes:
> 
>> How can I go about correcting this, so that the 'basemap.contour()'
>> function draws the contours BEFORE drawing the coastlines & filled
>> continents?
> 
> Use appropriate zorder arguments in your method calls:
> 
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/zorder_demo.html
> 

Contour does not pass on the zorder argument, so you need to do 
something like this:

CS = contour(x,y,z, levs)
for c in CS.collections:
     c.set_zorder(0.5) # less than patch, which is 1.0

Eric