Re: [matplotlib-devel] County boundaries for mid-west (or all of USA)

[Jeremy L. <lo...@gm...>]

Thanks, I was able to find the files I needed from here:

http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/co2000.html#shp

~ Jeremy


On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Jeremy Lounds <lo...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Sorry, its me again! I am not sure where else to ask this, so please
>> bear with me.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a tutorial or source on how I could get county
>> boundaries ready to be plotted on my basemap output? I have
>> "drawstates" working wonderfully, and need something like
>> "drawcounties"
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> ~ Jeremy
>>
>
> Jeremy,
>
> If you have access to the shapefile for county boundaries, you can call
> basemap's readshapefile() function to draw the counties.  You can specify
> line properties just like you would for a call to plotting the state
> boundaries.
>
> As a matter of fact, drawstates() is, essentially, a call to
> readshapefile(), but it refers to a file that came packaged with basemap for
> convenience.
>
> I hope that helps,
> Ben Root
>
>