Re: [Matplotlib-users] Basemap/ orthographic projection plot doesn't respect globe boundary

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

On 4/4/10 11:06 AM, Will Hewson wrote:
> Hi again Jeff et al...
>
> I've had a play around with the extra few lines of code - on paper this
> seems like it should solve the problems I'm experiencing. However, an
> error's being thrown up by the transform scalar function, as my lons and
> lats won't necessarily be increasing. The data I'm plotting is satellite
> data and so at the beginning and end of the orbit file lats go over the pole
> from 90 to -90, with a similar problem for the lons - whereby the data is
> taken across the satellite track. I've thought about sorting the data before
> passing it to transform_scalar but I'm always going to be left with the
> problem in either lats or lons.
>
> I've uploaded the file I'm currently working with this time. It's three
> columns of lons, lats and z values.
>
> Once again, many thanks for your help.
>
> Will.
>
> http://old.nabble.com/file/p28133659/test.plt test.plt
>    

Will:  Is it a regular lat/lon grid or a satellite swath?  If it's the 
latter, you can't use my solution.

-Jeff