Re: [Matplotlib-users] Basemap: Labeling parallels in polar stereographic projections

[Jeff W. <js...@fa...>]

Rich Fought wrote:
>
>> Rich:  You'll have to do it manually with the axes text method.  The 
>> drawparallels method can only label them where they intersect the 
>> edge of the map.
>>
> Thanks Jeff, that's what I was afraid of.
>
> New question: when adding axis labels (xlabel, ylabel) and figure 
> title, these overlap basemap parallel/meridian labels ... I suppose 
> I'll have to manually offset these items from the axis as well?

Rich:  You can pass xlabel and ylabel a position keyword (an x,y 
tuple).  Same for title.  See the pylab.text docstring for details.

-Jeff


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