Re: [Matplotlib-users] An issue with Basemap high resolution under Windows

[Mauro C. <mau...@gm...>]

Dear Jeff,

Thanks. I advised the user to download the latest version of Basemap
from the SF site and perfom an upgrade. Hope this may fix the problem.

Best regards,

2009/1/7 Jeff Whitaker <js...@fa...>:
> Mauro Cavalcanti wrote:
>>
>> Dear Jeff & ALL,
>>
>> A user just reported to me that he has found a problem when tryng to
>> create a map using the "high" resolution option under MS-Windows. He
>> is running Basemap version 0.99.1 with Python 2.5 (from the Enthought
>> Python Distribution) and got the following error:
>>
>> "IOError: Unable to open boundary dataset file. Only the 'crude',
>> 'low', 'intermediate' and 'high' resolution datasets are installed by
>> default. If you are requesting a 'full' resolution dataset, you may
>> need to download and install those files separately."
>>
>> It seems that the error appears when he attempts to use both the
>> 'high' and 'full' resolutions (all the others work OK).
>>
>> I could not find any hint on this in the Basemap README file, and do
>> not have a Windows box to be able to test it here.
>>
>> Would an upgrade to the latest Basemap version solve this issue?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.
>>
>> With best regards,
>>
>>
>
> Mauro:  That appears to be a modification to Basemap made by the Enthought
> folks to save disk space.  The installer provided on the matplotlib
> sourceforge site includes all the datasets.
> -Jeff
>



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