Re: [Matplotlib-users] Toggling country boundaries in MPL Basemap

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

Mauro Cavalcanti wrote:
> Dear ALL,
>
> Always engaged in pushing MPL/Basemap ahead of its limits, here am I
> again with a humble question: I want to be able to toggle the display
> of country boundaries on a map using a menu option on my wxPython
> interface. It is quite easy to initially plotting a map without
> borders and then toggling them on, but I could not figure out a way to
> toggling them off (if possible, without redrawing the whole map). Is
> there any trick to do this? ;-)
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> With warmest regards,
>
>   

Mauro:

The drawcountries() method returns a matplotlib line collection.  
Invoking the remove() method of the line collection will remove the 
countries from the axes instance.

-Jeff

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